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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 · 401,323 ratings · 13,746 reviews · 4,993 distinct works • Similar authors

	Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 304,923 ratings — published 1726 — 4 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 — 50,210 ratings — published 1729 — 728 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 — 14,705 ratings — published 1729 — 58 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 — 6,240 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 — 5,967 ratings — published 2005 — 15 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 — 2,139 ratings — published 1704 — 287 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 — 785 ratings — published 1704 — 46 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 — 589 ratings — published 1726	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 3.42 avg rating — 479 ratings — published 1697 — 143 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
	Гулливер в стране лилипутов 3.42 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 1726 — 30 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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Polls

March Short Story Poll

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, 30 pages, 1948

71 votes, 24.4%

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, 122 pages, 1879

49 votes, 16.8%

The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf, 24 pages, 1717

36 votes, 12.4%

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott, 96 pages, 1884

30 votes, 10.3%

Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, 126 pages, 1925

25 votes, 8.6%

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville, 64 pages, 1853

25 votes, 8.6%

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, 48 pages, 1729

22 votes, 7.6%

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, 125 pages, 1764

20 votes, 6.9%

So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ, 90 pages, 1979

9 votes, 3.1%

The Double Bass by Patrick Süskind, 57 pages, 1981

4 votes, 1.4%

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