Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) Yahoos are legendary beings in the 1726 satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels" written by Jonathan Swift. Their behavior and character representation is meant to comment on the state of Europe from Swift's point of view. The word "yahoo" was coined by Jonathan Swift in the fourth section of "Gulliver's Travels" and has since entered the English language more broadly. Its most famous use is as the name of a pioneering search engine, Yahoo!. Swift describes Yahoos as filthy with unpleasant habits, "a brute in human form," resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel
The Big Four (novel) the groundbreaking "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" (1926) and was overshadowed by its predecessor. In 1926 Christie was already deeply affected by the death of her mother earlier in the year and the breakdown of her marriage to Archibald Christie. Her brother-in-law, Campbell Christie, suggested compiling the "Sketch" stories into one novel, rather than undergo the strain of composing a completely new novel, and helped her revise them into a more coherent form for book publication. His assistance mainly took the form of revising the beginnings and ends of the stories to make them flow better into a novel –