I felt something alive move in my left leg ... as I slanted my eyes down as far as I could. I perceived him as a human creature not six inches tall 'Shipwrecked and adrift, Lemuel Gulliver awakens to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes his disputes for fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His later encounters, with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutal Yahoos, give Gulliver bitter new insights into human behavior. Swift's savage satire sees humanity in a distorted room of mirrors as a diminished, magnified, and ultimately bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves. This text, based on the 1726 first edition, reproduces all of his original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria, Jr, which discusses the ways in which Gulliver's Travels has been interpreted since its first publication.