Gulliver's Travels

by JONATHAN SWIFT

Overview

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.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016775272
Publisher:	Lyger eBooks
Publication date:	03/31/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	320 KB

About the Author

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Iris 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.