Gulliver's Travels
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Summary
Gulliver's Travels is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 0.44% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18,279 views/month, #126 of 28,446).[2]
Key Facts
- Author: Jonathan Swift[3]
- Publisher: Benjamin Motte[4]
- Genre: political satire[5], fantasy[6], nautical fiction[7], Menippean satire[8]
- Commons category: Gulliver's Travels[9]
- Language of work or name: English[10]
- Country of origin: United Kingdom[11]
- Has part(s): A Voyage to Lilliput[12], A Voyage to Brobdingnag[13], A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan[14], A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms[15]
- Publication date: October 28, 1726[16]
- Characters: Lemuel Gulliver[17], Struldbrugg[18], Houyhnhnm[19], Yahoo[20], Glumdalclitch[21]
- Has edition or translation: Les Voyages de Gulliver[22], A Voyage to Lilliput[23], Q66364005[24], Q66364070[25], Q66364081[26], Q66375118[27], Gulliver's Travels[28], Gulliver's travels: in words of one syllable[29], Gulliverovy cesty[30], Viagens de Gulliver a varios paizes remotos, 1816[31], Abakpuree Darshana[32]
- Narrative location: Lilliput[33], Blefuscu[34], Brobdingnag[35], Laputa[36], Balnibarbi[37], Glubbdubdrib[38], Luggnagg[39], Japan[40], Houyhnhnms Land[41]
- Topic's main category: Category:Gulliver's Travels[42]
- Work available at URL: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jonathan-swift/gullivers-travels[43]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[44]
- Takes place in fictional universe: Universe of Gulliver[45]
- Title: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships[46]
- Short name: Gulliver's Travels[47]
- Different from: Gulliver's Travels[48]
- Uses: fantasy map[49]
- Time period: Age of Enlightenment[50]
- Derivative work: Gulliver's Travels[51], The New Gulliver[52], Case for a Rookie Hangman[53]
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Cultural Impact
Things named for Gulliver's Travels include endianness[56] and Prater Liliputbahn[57], a Fifteen-inch gauge railway[58], in Austria[59].
Why It Matters
Gulliver's Travels has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[60] It is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[61]
Entities named for it include endianness[56] and Prater Liliputbahn[57], a Fifteen-inch gauge railway[58], in Austria[59].