"My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was the third offive sons. He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteenyears old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies, but the charge of maintaining me..."Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. ByLemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, commonly known as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a prose satire by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that isboth a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales"literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and aclassic of English literature.The book became popular as soon as it was published. The book beginswith a short preamble in which Lemuel Gulliver, in the style of booksof the time, gives a brief outline of his life and history before hisvoyages. He enjoys travelling, although it is that love of travel that is his downfall.Gulliver's Travels has been the recipient of several designations:from Menippean satire to a children's story, from proto-ScienceFiction to a forerunner of the modern novel.