Gulliver'sTravels

Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World is a prose satire by the Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.

After a shipwreck, Lemuel Gulliver wakes up and finds himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by small people, whose height makes his discussions of fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with Brobdingnag's crude giants, philosophers, charlatan scientists, reasoned horses, and the brutal Yahoos - give Gulliver new and bitter ideas about human behavior.

Written with great wit and invention, Gulliver's Travels is a savage parody on man and his institutions that has captivated readers for nearly three centuries. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gulliver's 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 Gulliver's Travels is listed as "a satirical masterpiece".