Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Fiction Classics Literary Fantasy

<p><strong>Gulliver's Travels whose full title is Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.</strong> In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and the travellers' tales literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work and a classic of English literature The book became popular as soon as it was published. John Gay wrote in a 1726 letter to Swift that It is universally read from the cabinet council to the nursery.</p><p>If you haven't read Swift's original but have only happened on it through the infinite number of adaptations of this work you need to read it now; it's a classic that may not be at all what you've come to think.</p>