Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World

"Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World" is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift. The book satirizes human nature and the «travelers' tales» literary subgenre. It tells about the travels of Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon and then a captain of several ships who gets into unimaginable adventures on distant lands, which mirror different sides of society in a satirical manner.