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
Travels in the Scriptorium and clicks, recording his movements, and a microphone records every sound in the room. Someone is watching. Travels in the Scriptorium Travels in the Scriptorium is a novel by Paul Auster first published in 2007. Elements from most past Auster novels all converge in this book: every character other than the protagonist, Mr. Blank, is taken from a previous novel, with yet more characters mentioned peripherally. An old man is disoriented within an unknown chamber and has no memory about who he is or how he has arrived there. He tries to understand something from the relics on the desk,