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 Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century of a previously overlooked work or of a new approach to one better known". After the editor, Donald Holoch is the second largest contributor to the work. His essay, "A Novel of Setting: "The Bureaucrats"", concerns Li Baojia's (Li Boyuan) "Officialdom Unmasked", and his "The Travels of Laocan: Allegorical Narrative" concerns "The Travels of Lao Can" by Liu E (Liu O). Next is Gilbert Chu Fu Fong, "Time in "Nine Murders": Western Influence and Domestic Tradition" about "Jiuming Qiyuan" by Wu Jianren, followed by Michael Egan, "Characterization in "Sea of Woe"" concerning "Henhai" ("Sea of Woe"), also by Wu Jianren.