Gulliver's Travels
Irish novelist, 1667–1745.
Gulliver's Travels is a 1726 novel by Jonathan Swift.
On 7 of the 13 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Jonathan Swift
- First published
- 1726
- Length
- 288 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Comic novels and satire, Adventure, Political
Is Gulliver's Travels worth reading?
7 of the 13 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.co.uk) and 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.co.uk, 2014) | Listed | See the list |
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 62 | See the list |
| Bokklubben World Library (Norwegian Book Clubs, 2002) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture, 2015) | No. 55 | See the list |
| The 100 greatest novels of all time (The Observer, 2003) | Listed | See the list |
| The Great American Read (PBS, 2018) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of Gulliver's Travels
The edition we link to is the Wordsworth Editions paperback (1992), 288 pages.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions (paperback, 1992)
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN
- 9781853260278
How critics and readers rate Gulliver's Travels
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 56% of the points available on critics' lists, against 31% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work