#91 in Humour
Gulliver's Travels
- 299
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
- Film 2010 +11
- On screen
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Our view
“Gulliver’s Travels” is not the children’s adventure some expect but a sharp satire of human nature disguised as a travel memoir. Swift’s inventions, from the tiny people of Lilliput to giants, remain funny and strange. Some readers find the mock-travelogue style wordy. It is a book for those who enjoy irony.
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About the book
Gulliver's Travels, originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, is a 1726 satirical prose novel by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift. It is one of the most famous classics of both English and world literature, and popularised the fictional island of Lilliput. The poet John Gay remarked of the work, "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery." The novel satirises human nature and the imaginary "travellers' tales" literary subgenre, and it has been adapted for theatrical performances, films, television, and radio over the centuries.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen 12 times — from 1902 to 2021.
- FilmGulliver's TravelsIMDb
- FilmGulliver's TravelsIMDb
- FilmThe New GulliverIMDb
- Short filmGulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the GiantsIMDb
- SeriesGulliver's TravelsIMDb
- FilmGulliver's Travels Beyond the MoonIMDb
- FilmThe Three Worlds of GulliverIMDb
- FilmGulliver returnsIMDb
- FilmGulliver's TravelsIMDb
- FilmCase for a Rookie HangmanIMDb
- FilmGulliver's TravelsIMDb
- SeriesSaban’s Gulliver’s TravelsIMDb
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.0 across 568 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 79% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Humour average of 7.8. That is how 7.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.2 | 89 | 16% |
| Hardcover | 6.9 | 479 | 84% |
Frequently asked
How long is Gulliver's Travels?
It has 299 pages — shorter than 94% of the ranked books in Humour.
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