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The Gulliver Code - Gulliver's Secret Deciphered

Lemuel Gulliver, and the First Edition of Gulliver's Travels, 1726

George Orwell called Gulliver's Travels "among the six indispensable books in world literature". H.L. Mencken wrote that "few books hold up better... its blistering humors are as fresh as today's witticism."

Gulliver Travels also holds one of English literature's most enduring mysteries. For almost 300 years, critics have wracked their brains about the book. Clearly the characters and locations in the Travels - like Lilliput and the Yahoos - are modelled on real people and places. But who, what and why?

Now Gulliver's secret is starting to emerge from the clues Swift left behind. We now know that Swift's code was based on a real cryptographic technique. The author and his friends may have used it to send secret messages that, if deciphered, would have put them in personal danger.

So the Gulliver Code is now being cracked, and the mysteries in Gulliver's Travels are starting to unravel. What discoveries lie ahead? Join us as we investigate the secrets behind a computer that Swift calls the literary engine - the Word Machine of Lagado.

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