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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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	Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 295,817 ratings — published 1726 — 1343 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 — 48,708 ratings — published 1729 — 755 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 — 14,614 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 — 6,237 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 — 5,860 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 3.45 avg rating — 2,055 ratings — published 1704 — 94 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 — 773 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 — 451 ratings — published 1697 — 146 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) 3.56 avg rating — 340 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

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“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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April 2015 Revisit the Shelf Classic Reread

1848, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, 535 pages

14 votes, 27.5%

1938, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, 448 pages

10 votes, 19.6%

1929, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 351 pages

5 votes, 9.8%

1929, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 293 pages

5 votes, 9.8%

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

5 votes, 9.8%

1895, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, 118 pages

4 votes, 7.8%

1887, A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle, 108 pages

4 votes, 7.8%

1818, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, 251 pages

2 votes, 3.9%

1957, Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 592 pages

1 vote, 2.0%

1952, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, 601 pages

1 vote, 2.0%

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