Jonathan Swift 
Gulliver’s travels 

‘Gulliver’s Travels’ is a satire by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the ’travellers’ tales’ literary subgenre. It is Swift’s best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.

The author

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.