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 is a 1726 prose satire[1][2] by the 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".Gulliver's TravelsGullivers travels.jpgFirst edition of Gulliver's TravelsAuthorJonathan SwiftOriginal titleTravels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several ShipsCountryEnglandLanguageEnglishGenreSatire, fantasyPublisherBenjamin MottePublication date28 October 1726 (293 years ago)Media typePrintDewey Decimal823.5The book was an immediate success. The English dramatist John Gay remarked "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery."[3] In 2015, ROBERT McCrum released his selection list of 100 best novels of all time in which Gulliver's Travels is listed as "a satirical masterpiece".[4]Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. The two islands are neighbours in the South Indian OCEAN, separated by a channel 800 yards (730 m) wide. Both are inhabited by tiny people who are about one-twelfth the height of ORDINARY human beings. Both kingdoms are empires, i.e. realms ruled by a self-styled emperor. The capital of Lilliput is Mildendo. In some pictures, the islands are arranged like an EGG, as a reference to their egg-dominated histories and cultures.LilliputGulliver's Travels locationMap of Lilliput - Gulliver's Travels 1726 edition.pngMap of Lilliput and Blefuscu (original map, Pt I, Gulliver's Travels). It shows the location in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Sumatra.Created byJonathan SwiftGenreSatireInformationTypeMonarchyEthnic group(s)LilliputiansNotable locationsMildendo (capital)CurrencysprugBlefuscuGulliver's Travels locationCreated byJonathan SwiftGenreSatireInformationTypeMonarchyEthnic group(s)BlefuscudiansNotable locationsBlefuscu (capital)CurrencysprugHerman Moll: A map of the world shewing the course of Mr Dampiers voyage round it from 1679 to 1691, London 1697. Cropped region near the fictional island Lilliput. Swift was known to be on friendly terms with the cartographer Herman Moll and even mentions him explicitly in Gulliver's Travels (1726), chapter four, part eleven. The pair of islands center left on the map are Île Amsterdam (Amsterdam, seemingly corresponding to Blefuscu) and Île Saint-Paul (Saint Paul Island, corresponding to Liliput) to the north and south, respectively.