Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and the "e;travellers' tales"e; 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 "e;to vex the world rather than divert it"e;. The book became popular as soon as...