#OTD in 1726.
The novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre is published. Swift claimed that he wrote it "to vex the world rather than divert it".
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift
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