About the book: 1976 / The book contains two of the most significant works of the great English satirist: the complete version of "Gulliver's Travels" and "The Tale of a Barrel", the writer's first significant experience." The Tale of a Barrel" is an irreverent and daring book, included in the list of prohibited books by the Vatican. Swift ridiculed what he considered outdated, obsolete, or harmful in literature, science, and religion. In the minds of generations of readers, Swift is primarily the author of Gulliver's Travels. The genre of this immortal work of world literature is very difficult to determine. This is a book of travel to countries, only these countries are fictional. This is a fantastic book, and at the same time a political pamphlet and a philosophical story.