Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships better known simply as Gulliver's Travels (1726 amended 1735) is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the travellers' tales literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work and a classic of English literature.