: During a sea voyage, a ship's doctor entered the land of giants and became a favorite pet of the royal family. Once, a giant eagle carried a doctor’s house into the ocean, where a ship picked him up and took him home.

The narration is conducted on behalf of the ship's physician Lemuel Gulliver. The titles of the chapters are conditional.

Chapter 1. Gulliver enters the country of giants

Having wintered at the Cape of Good Hope, the Adventure ship, where Gulliver served, moved on and fell into a storm that carried him to an unknown land.

June 17, 1703 the crew landed ashore in search of fresh water. After wandering around the stony desert, Gulliver returned to the shore and saw that the longboat with his comrades hurriedly set sail, and the giant was chasing after him.

Frightened Gulliver rushed inland and reached a barley field, the plants on which were six meters high. Gulliver realized that he was in the country of giants, and with longing remembered Liliput, where he alone captured a fleet. Here he will be a miserable and insignificant creature.

Observation confirms that human cruelty and rudeness increase in accordance with growth.

In the meantime, other giants came and began to harvest giant barley. One of them almost stepped on Gulliver. He screamed, the giant heard a scream and picked it up. So Gulliver got into the family of a farmer.

At first, the giants thought they had caught a strange animal or a large insect, but then they became convinced that Gulliver was a rational creature. The farm owner took Gulliver to his home.

Chapter 2. Gulliver show people for money

The farmer’s nine-year-old daughter took custody of Gulliver and made him a bed in a doll's cradle. The girl called Gulliver Grildrig - the little man, and he called her Glyumdalklich - the nanny.

With the help of Glumdalklich, he quickly learned the local language.

Soon, neighbors began to come to the farmer to look at the "smart little animal" that he found in the field. One of them, an old miser, advised the owner to show Gulliver in the city for money. Gulliver agreed to play the role of a curiosity, hoping to someday return to England.

The landlord made a lot of money by showing Gulliver both in the city on market days and at home to the surrounding nobles. Finally, he decided to go around with Gulliver all the major cities of the kingdom, and on August 17, 1703 went on a trip, taking Glumdalklich with him. Gulliver rode in a crate upholstered in soft cloth and felt. Ten weeks later, they arrived in the capital Lorbrulgrud.

Chapter 3. The favorite of the royal family

Gulliver was exhausted by the dear and daily performances, he "lost his appetite and became like a skeleton." The owner thought that he would die soon, and decided to extract the maximum profit from it. At this time, the queen became interested in Gulliver. Seeing how cruelly Gulliver uses the farmer, she wanted to buy a curiosity. The owner gave in to Gulliver for a good price, and he asked to keep Glumdalklich with him.

Gulliver told about his adventures to the king, one of the most learned people in the country, and he did not immediately believe him. The court joiner made a drawer for Gulliver, similar to a room with a door and windows, and furnished it with elaborate furniture. The ceiling of the room opened so that it would be more convenient for Glumdalklich to clean it. Other court masters made furniture, utensils suitable for Gulliver and sewed clothes.

Gulliver became a favorite of the royal family.The court dwarf, before the appearance of Gulliver was considered the smallest man in the kingdom, disliked him and spoiled his life in every way. The queen presented the dwarf to her court lady after he nearly drowned Gulliver in cream.

Chapter 4. Gulliver travels Brobdingneg

The country of the giants was called Brobdingneg and was located on a peninsula of land fenced by impassable mountains, which, according to Gulliver, lay "between Japan and California." He often traveled around the kingdom with the queen and Glyumdalklich in a smaller box of travel boxes than his usual dwelling.

Chapter 5. Funny but Dangerous Adventures

Due to his small stature, Gulliver periodically fell into dangerous adventures. Once an evil dwarf shook a dwarf apple tree, under which Gulliver walked, and he was nearly killed by fruits the size of a barrel. In the same garden, he was almost hit by a hail that suddenly started, then he hit the gardener's dog’s teeth, barely lost his kite, fell into a mole hole and broke his leg on a snail shell.

Wanting to entertain Gulliver, the queen ordered the construction of a swimming pool in which he could ride a small boat. Once a giant frog fell into the pool with water, which Gulliver had to fight with an oar. Gulliver was most at risk when a monkey dragged him out of the house. She mistook him for a baby and tried to feed him from her cheek pouches, which made Gulliver nearly suffocate.

All these incidents amused the royal couple and the courtiers, since they did not consider Gulliver to be equal to themselves. He often reflected "on the futility of all attempts to gain respect for himself from people standing immeasurably higher than us."

Chapter 6. Serious Conversation with the King

Gulliver once told the king that he was vain in contempt for Europe.

Mental abilities do not increase in proportion to the size of the body.

He began to talk about the judicial, financial and political systems of England, about the way of life of the British and about the English clergy, trying in every possible way to embellish his homeland and introduce judges, priests and politicians as noble people.

For six nights the king listened attentively to Gulliver, and then said that he doubted the nobility of peers and ministers, the justice of judges and the sanctity of bishops. He did not understand why England was waging such costly wars and where did he get the funds for them. A short course in the history of England finally convinced the king that the British belonged to "the breed of small disgusting reptiles, the most evil of all that have ever crawled on the ground."

Chapter 7. Political structure Brobdingnega

The king ruled his country, guided by common sense, impartiality and kindness. The laws in Brobdingnegg were written in such a simple language that they had only one interpretation, and the army was a civil militia and guarded the order within the country.

When Gulliver spoke about firearms and proposed to arrange its production, the king forbade him to even mention this devilish invention.

Chapter 8. Gulliver returns to England

The king wanted to get a wife for Gulliver, but he did not want to breed in a cage and missed his family. In his third year at Brobdingnegg, Gulliver accompanied the queen on a journey to the coast. Once he asked a page to take his camping box to the ocean and leave it on the shore. At this time, the eagle took Gulliver’s house for the turtle, grabbed the ring on the roof and carried it into the ocean.

Another eagle attacked the bird, and the house fell into the water. Four hours later, an English ship picked up the box. Gulliver hardly convinced the captain of the existence of the country of giants and for a long time could not get used to objects and people of normal sizes. Frightened that Gulliver was offended, his wife forbade him to think about traveling.

The retelling is based on the translation B. M. Engelhardt.