Shipwrecked and cast adrift Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput an island inhabited by little people whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent
encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire views mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished magnified and finally bestial species presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.