Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four
Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a
1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising
both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best
known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he
wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather th ...