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 Known World story without bias. The novel won a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2004. In 2005 it won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, one of the richest literary awards for a novel in the English language. It was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Award. In 2009, website The Millions polled 48 critics, writers, and editors; the panel voted "The Known World" the second best novel since 2000. Interviews Reviews Misc The Known World The Known World is a 2003 historical novel by Edward P. Jones. Set in Virginia during the antebellum