The book contains two of the most significant works of the great English satirist: the full version of Gulliver's Travels and The Tale of the Barrel, the writer's first significant experience. “The Tale of the Barrel” is an irreverent and impertinent book that the Vatican has included in the list of banned books. Swift derided what he considered obsolete, outmoded, 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 by country, only these countries are fictional. This is a fantastic book, and at the same time a political pamphlet, and a philosophical story.