Query: Books from the year 1726
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Political History of the Devil
Gulliver's Travels
Evidence from documents: The Political History of the Devil: '''''The Political History of the Devil''''' is a 1726 book by Daniel Defoe.
Gulliver's Travels: 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".