The satirical voyages of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver to the tiny Lilliputians, the giant Brobdingnagians, the flying island of Laputa, and the rational Houyhnhnms.
Books mentioned in Gulliver's Travels (1)
A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier: “to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."”
Books that mention Gulliver's Travels (17)
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: “He withdrew the finger that was still thrust between the pages of Gulliver, opened the book, and ran his eye down the list of chapters”
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: “Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word _book_ acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver's Travels from the library.”
Middlemarch by George Eliot: “deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do”
Bleak House by Charles Dickens: “in hooking one, hook all and bear them off as Lemuel Gulliver bore away the stately fleet of the majestic Lilliput.”
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens: “I felt like Gulliver with the Lilliputians firing upon him.”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: “I suppose it doesn't really deceive people any more than the "Arabian Nights" or "Gulliver's Travels" do.”
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami: “This meaningless response hovered in the air above the table like the floating island in Gulliver's Travels.”
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury: “I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels!”
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco: “(epigraph) —Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, III, 5”
The Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich: “What a place in which to read Gulliver's Travels, or the famous adventures of Rinaldo Rinaldini!”
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt: “There's a book over there on the table, Gulliver's Travels.”
The Breast by Philip Roth: “the power over my imagination of Kafka or Gogol? Or of Swift? I'm thinking of Gulliver's Travels, another book I've taught for years.”
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James: ““So I take it you’ve read Swift.” “Jamaican schoolers read Gulliver’s Travels by the time they’re twelve.””
Babel by R. F. Kuang: “They landed on a familiar volume on the shelf above Professor Lovell's head – Gulliver's Travels”
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss: “"As if Gulliver's Travels was true!" said Fritz, in a tone of derision.”