Gulliver's Travels (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)Regarded as the preeminent prose satirist in the English language, Jonathan Swift (16671745) intended this masterpiece, as he once wrote Alexander Pope, to "vex the world rather than divert it." Savagely ironic, it portrays man as foolish at best, and at worst, not much more than an ape. The direct and unadorned narrative describes four remarkable journies of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver, among them, one to the land of Lilliput, where six inch high