Original: By Lemuel Gulliver , First a Surgeon , and then a Captain of Several Ships , better known simply as Gulliver 's Travels ( 1726 , amended 1735 ) , is a novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the '' travellers ' tales '' literary sub-genre .
Simplified: By Lemuel Gulliver , First a Surgeon , and then a Captain of several Ships , is a 1726 fictional satire by Jonathan Swift .