Brobdingnag Brobdingnag Brobdingnag is a fictional land in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels" occupied by giants. Lemuel Gulliver visits the land after the ship on which he is travelling is blown off course and he is separated from a party exploring the unknown land. In the second preface to the book, Gulliver laments that this is a misspelling introduced by the publisher and the land is actually called Brobdingrag. The adjective "Brobdingnagian" has come to describe anything of colossal size. Swift describes the location of Brobdingnag, and its geography, in the text of Part II of "Gullivers Travels", and
The New Gulliver The story, a Communist re-telling of "Gulliver's Travels", is about a young boy who dreams of himself as a version of Gulliver who has landed in Lilliput suffering under capitalist inequality and exploitation. The pioneer Petya Konstantinov (Vladimir Konstantinov) as an award for the best young OSVOD member of Artek receives his favorite book — "Gulliver's Travels" by Johnathan Swift. Together with other pioneers who repaired the sailboat "Artek" with their own hands, he goes on for a walk to the Adalara's islands which are near the summer camp. There during vacation children ask the leader to read them aloud