Gulliver's Travels
1726 novel by Jonathan Swift / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gulliver's Travels, or 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 1726 prose satire[1][2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. 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".
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Author | Jonathan Swift |
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Original title | Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships |
Language | English |
Genre | Satire, science fiction |
Publisher | Benjamin Motte |
Publication date | 28 October 1726 (297 years ago) (1726-10-28) |
Publication place | England |
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Text | Gulliver's Travels at Wikisource |
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The book was an immediate success. The English dramatist John Gay remarked, "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery."[3]