Gulliver's Travels Gulliver's Travels 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 (which is the full title), is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. He himself claimed that he wrote "Gulliver's Travels" "to vex the world rather than divert it". The book became popular as soon as it was published. Alexander Pope
Ashbel Green Gulliver The Ashbel G. Gulliver Memorial Library Fund at Yale Law School is endowed in his name. Gulliver was a Chairman of the Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations. Ashbel Green Gulliver Ashbel Green Gulliver (November 23, 1897, Connecticut - July 3, 1974, Hanover, New Hampshire) was the Dean of Yale Law School from 1940 to 1946. His nickname was "Peyl"—from ashpail. Gulliver went to Groton School for high school. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1919, where he was Secretary of the Elizabethan Club and a member of the Wolf's Head secret society. Gulliver graduated with an LL.B.