Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver Surgeon and Captain of Several Ships commonly known as Gullivers Travels 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 Swifts 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 ...