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
The Travels of Lao Can characters and events illustrate a "complex conservatism" that concludes that technology instead of social change is the answer to the problems experienced by China. Cordell D. K. Yee's review of "The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century", however, argues that "it is doubtful that all episodes conform" to the allegory concept. Robert E. Hegel, in a review of "The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century", argues that Holoch's interpretation is persuasive and "makes a substantial contribution to the studies of the novel". The Travels of Lao Can The Travels of Lao Can (, or "The Travels