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Jonathan Swift

Born

in Dublin, Ireland

November 30, 1667

Died

October 19, 1745

Genre

Fiction, Satire, Poetry

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Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier—or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
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Average rating: 3.68 · 391,006 ratings · 12,753 reviews · 4,899 distinct works • Similar authors

	Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 296,979 ratings — published 1726 — 275 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Modest Proposal 4.02 avg rating — 48,916 ratings — published 1729 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works 4.04 avg rating — 14,624 ratings — published 1729 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings 3.85 avg rating — 6,238 ratings — published 1962 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gulliver's Travels and ''A Modest Proposal'' 3.92 avg rating — 5,875 ratings — published 2005 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Tale of a Tub 3.44 avg rating — 2,073 ratings — published 1704 — 286 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Tale of a Tub and Other Works by Jonathan Swift, Angus Ross (Editor), David Woolley (Editor) 3.74 avg rating — 777 ratings — published 1704 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gullivers Travels to Lilliput and Brobdingnag 3.53 avg rating — 588 ratings — published 1726 — 144 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Battle of the Books 3.43 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 1697 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Directions to Servants by Jonathan Swift, Colm Tóibín (Foreword by) 3.57 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 1731 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom

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“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift

tags: imagination

1924 likes

“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

[Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
― Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays

tags: dunces, genius, stupidity

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August 2016 Revisit the Shelf Poll

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1813, 279

39 votes, 20.6%

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 1957, 592 pages

26 votes, 13.8%

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1932, 268 pages

22 votes, 11.6%

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, 1891, 518 pages

19 votes, 10.1%

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 1962, 192 pages

17 votes, 9.0%

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, 1898, 192 pages

16 votes, 8.5%

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, 1726, 306 pages

12 votes, 6.3%

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1901, 256 pages

11 votes, 5.8%

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883, 311 pages

10 votes, 5.3%

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, 1924, 326 pages

9 votes, 4.8%

The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek, 1921, 752 pages

8 votes, 4.2%

189 total votes

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