Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) Yahoos are legendary beings in the 1726 satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels" written by Jonathan Swift. Their behavior and character representation is meant to comment on the state of Europe from Swift's point of view. The word "yahoo" was coined by Jonathan Swift in the fourth section of "Gulliver's Travels" and has since entered the English language more broadly. Its most famous use is as the name of a pioneering search engine, Yahoo!. Swift describes Yahoos as filthy with unpleasant habits, "a brute in human form," resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel
The World is Round (novel) that is, a rejected lover breaks the rules of good form. Mack treats with irony the triumph of love between the young heroine and her deliberately blind successful suitor, despite its foundation on vanity and falsehood. Had the author cultivated her obvious satiric gifts, her career might have been as brilliant as that of Miles Franklin." The World is Round (novel) The World is Round (1896) is the first novel by Australian writer Louise Mack. The novel follows the story of Jean Burnes, a young Sydney woman with dreams of becoming a novelist. Her manuscript is altered by her lover