Gullivers Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, 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 Swifts best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.
The book became tremendously popular as soon as it was published (John said 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.