In Gullivers Travels , the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked Gullivers encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. A consumately skillful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gullivers Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swifts alter ego plays tricks on us, and our gullibility uncovers one of the worlds most disturbing satires of the human condition.