Gulliver’s Travels

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 (which is the full title), is a prose satire by 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. He himself claimed that he wrote Gulliver’s Travels “to vex the world rather than divert it”.The book was an immediate success. Gulliver’s Travels has been the recipient of several designations: from Menippean satire to a children’s story, from proto-science fiction to a forerunner of the modern novel.