Gulliver's Travels: A 1726 prose satire by the Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift satirising both human nature and the travellers' tales literary subgenre.

Gullivers 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 Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift satirising both human nature and the travellers tales literary subgenre. It is Swifts best known full-length work and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gullivers Travels to vex the world rather than divert it.The book was an immediate success. The English dramatist John Gay remarked It is universally read from the cabinet council to the nursery.In 2015 Robert McCrum released his selection list of 100 best novels of all time in which Gullivers Travels is listed as a satirical masterpiece.[