Gulliver's Travels ; Into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Jonathan Swift story of Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, basically known as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature which became one of forever classical top sales book.