Gulliver's Travels
(1726-present)
thing and novel (from 1726)
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Wikidata WikipediaGulliver'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 is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than divert it". The book was an immediate success. The English dramatist John Gay remarked: "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery." In 2015, Robert McCrum released his selection list of 100 best novels of all time in which Gulliver's Travels is listed in third place as "a satirical masterpiece".
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Commemorated on 1 plaque
Gulliver's Travels Johnathon Swift's preface to readers in the first edition of his famous Gulliver's Travels 1726. Remarks "I have observed in the church yard at Banbury several tombs and monuments of the Gulliver's". The original tombstones no longer exist. A later one bearing this old Banbury name lies near to this plaque.
Church yard of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Horse Fair, Banbury, United Kingdom where it was