Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships better known simply as Gulliver s Travels (1726 amended 1735) is a novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers tales" literary sub-genre. 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." Since then it has never been out of print. Cavehill in Belfast is thought to be the inspiration for the novel. Swift imagined that the mountain resembled the shape of a sleeping giant safeguarding the city.
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Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist essayist political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs then for the Tories) poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick s Cathedral Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver s Travels A Modest Proposal A Journal to Stella Drapier s Letters The Battle of the Books An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language and is less well known for his poetry. Swift originally published all of his works under pseudonyms such as Lemuel Gulliver Isaac Bickerstaff MB Drapier or anonymously. He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
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Part I - A Voyage to Lilliput
Part II - A Voyage to Brobdingnag
Part III - A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan
Part IV - A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
