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Gulliver sails on the Antelope, is shipwrecked in Lilliput, and tries to be of service.
Part 1, Chapter 1The Emperor of Lilliput gives Gulliver a place to live and feeds and clothes him.
Part 1, Chapter 3Gulliver loses favor with the Lilliputian emperor and flees after being charged with treason.
Part 1, Chapter 8Gulliver becomes a traveling performer, making money for a giant farmer.
Part 2, Chapter 2The Queen of Brobdingnag sees Gulliver on display and buys him as a pet.
Part 2, Chapter 3A bird takes Gulliver's traveling case to sea; he is rescued by an English ship.
Part 2, Chapter 8Gulliver returns to England and immediately leaves again on a voyage to the East Indies.
Part 3, Chapter 1Gulliver's ship is attacked by pirates, and Gulliver escapes to an uninhabited island.
Part 3, Chapter 1Gulliver is rescued from a desert island by inhabitants of the floating island, Laputa.
Part 3, Chapter 2Gulliver leaves Laputa to travel to Balnibarbi, where he discovers a crumbling society.
Part 3, Chapter 4Gulliver visits the academy on Balnibarbi and meets with projectors who make disastrous experiments.
Part 3, Chapter 5Gulliver travels to Glubbdubdrib, where the governor lets him talk with dead figures from history.
Part 3, Chapter 8Gulliver travels to Luggnagg, where he learns that immortality combined with old age is a curse.
Part 3, Chapter 10Claiming to be Dutch, Gulliver departs Japan on a Dutch ship bound for Amsterdam.
Part 3, Chapter 11Gulliver returns home for several months before being offered the captaincy of another voyage.
Part 4, Chapter 1Gulliver's crew mutinies and leaves him on the island of the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos.
Part 4, Chapter 1The Houyhnhnms exile Gulliver, and he is picked up by a Portuguese ship.
Part 4, Chapter 10Gulliver reunites with his family in England but is disgusted by their Yahoo ways.
Part 4, Chapter 11Gulliver attempts to reintegrate with European society but the process is slow.
Part 4, Chapter 12| Chapter | Summary |
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| Part 1, Chapter 1 | Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, the narrator of Gulliver's Travels, describes his career, education, and family. Gulliver is a surg... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 2 | On his first morning in the temple, Gulliver wakes up in chains, stands up, and admires the countryside. He relieves him... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 3 | The Lilliputians begin to like and trust Gulliver. The emperor entertains Gulliver by showing him the rope-dancers, comm... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 4 | Gulliver visits the Lilliputian capital city of Mildendo and the emperor's palace. He is later visited by Reldresal, an ... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 5 | Gulliver honors his promise to defend Lilliput from a Blefuscu attack. He collects the entire Blefuscu naval fleet and b... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 6 | In Lilliput, everything exists in proportion to the Lilliputians, including their eyesight. Lilliputians are clearly abl... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 7 | A government official tells Gulliver that members of the council, including Flimnap, have charged Gulliver with treason.... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapter 8 | After three days on Blefuscu, Gulliver spies an overturned boat at sea. With the help of Blefuscu's navy, he retrieves t... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapter 1 | After two months at home, Gulliver grows restless and returns to sea aboard the Adventure. A massive storm strikes, forc... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapter 2 | The farmer's nine-year-old daughter is fond of Gulliver and cares for him. She sews him clothing, and teaches him the na... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapter 3 | Gulliver is made to perform for crowds to the point of exhaustion. He loses a lot of weight and is in poor health. The f... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapter 4 | Gulliver describes Brobdingnag as a peninsula isolated from the rest of the continent by mountains. The city of Lorbrulg... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapter 5 | Gulliver has several accidents that nearly kill him in Brobdingnag. The queen's dwarf drops a barrel of apples on him; h... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapter 6 | Gulliver fashions a comb from a piece of wood and pieces of the king's beard stubble. He weaves a chair from the queen's... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapter 7 | Gulliver is upset that the king holds a low opinion of England. He fears his summary of England's history may have repre... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapter 8 | After two years in the kingdom, Gulliver hopes to leave but does not have the means. Gulliver goes with the king and que... Read More |
| Part 3, Chapter 1 | Gulliver leaves on a voyage to the East Indies shortly after returning from Brobdingnag. Pirates raid the ship near Tonq... Read More |
| Part 3, Chapter 2 | The floating island is called Laputa, and its inhabitants are singularly concerned with studying mathematics and music. ... Read More |
| Part 3, Chapter 3 | Laputa is a perfectly circular island, and it stays afloat in the sky using complex engineering and a series of magnets ... Read More |
| Part 3, Chapter 4 | After two months on Laputa, Gulliver grows bored with the residents' introspection. He lacks the knowledge of mathematic... Read More |
| Part 3, Chapter 5 | Gulliver visits the academy and finds the projectors hard at work on their experiments. None of these experiments have p... Read More |
| Part 3, Chapter 6 | Gulliver visits the school of politics in the academy and judges the professors to be "wholly out of their senses." Some... Read More |
| Part 3, Chapter 7 | Gulliver arranges to leave Balnibarbi and sails to the neighboring island of Glubbdubdrib, loosely translated as "the is... Read More |
| Part 3, Chapter 8 | Gulliver's conversations with the dead continue as he calls forth Homer and Aristotle to meet with other philosophers, i... Read More |
| Part 3, Chapter 9 | Gulliver travels from Glubbdubdrib to Luggnagg. He identifies himself as Dutch upon arrival so he can be allowed to trav... Read More |
| Part 3, Chapter 10 | Gulliver finds the Luggnaggians "polite and generous." He considers staying in the country after he learns about the "st... Read More |
| Part 3, Chapter 11 | Gulliver leaves Luggnagg for Japan. He pretends to be Dutch because they are the only Europeans allowed into Japan. He s... Read More |
| Part 4, Chapter 1 | After five months at home, Gulliver accepts an offer to captain a voyage on the Adventure. On this journey, many of his ... Read More |
| Part 4, Chapter 2 | In the gray horse's house, Gulliver is introduced to additional members of his host's family along with his servants—all... Read More |
| Part 4, Chapter 3 | After a few weeks of study, Gulliver gains a functional knowledge of the Houyhnhnm language. All members of his master's... Read More |
| Part 4, Chapter 4 | The Houyhnhnms do not fully understand the concepts of doubt and disbelief because falsehood is also foreign to them. De... Read More |
| Part 4, Chapter 5 | Gulliver presents the history of Europe to his master, including past wars and wars in progress. He explains that the ca... Read More |
| Part 4, Chapter 6 | Gulliver explains to his master the concept of money and how it is used to buy goods, how the men who have it are prone ... Read More |
| Part 4, Chapter 7 | Gulliver's account of his home country stems from his reflections on the human state as inferior to the state of the Hou... Read More |
| Part 4, Chapter 8 | Gulliver spends time among the Yahoos to learn more about them. During these visits, Gulliver reveals his physical simil... Read More |
| Part 4, Chapter 9 | Three months before Gulliver leaves the Houyhnhnm island, he attends a grand assembly of the Houyhnhnms as they debate w... Read More |
| Part 4, Chapter 10 | Gulliver has quarters in his master's house that are built in the Houyhnhnm fashion, and he enjoys spending time with hi... Read More |
| Part 4, Chapter 11 | When Gulliver commences his voyage, he plans to find an island where he can survive in solitude rather than return to th... Read More |
| Part 4, Chapter 12 | Gulliver swears to the truth of his story, saying he would rather present facts than tell "strange improbable tales." He... Read More |
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