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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 · 388,748 ratings · 12,547 reviews · 5,034 distinct works • Similar authors

	Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 295,267 ratings — published 1726 — 6271 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 — 48,614 ratings — published 1729 — 753 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 4.05 avg rating — 14,599 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 — 5,853 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 — 2,051 ratings — published 1704 — 93 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 — 771 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 — 585 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 — 448 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) 3.57 avg rating — 337 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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Quotes by Jonathan Swift (?)

“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

1926 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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Polls

April 2018 Short Story Poll

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 82 pages, 1848

53 votes, 15.0%

A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor, 24 pages, 1955

44 votes, 12.5%

The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Gaskell, 52 pages, 1861

36 votes, 10.2%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages, 1953

35 votes, 9.9%

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, 126 pages, 1966

33 votes, 9.3%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941

31 votes, 8.8%

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, 112 pages, 1918

29 votes, 8.2%

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, 48 pages, 1729

25 votes, 7.1%

Fences by August Wilson, 101 pages, 1986

19 votes, 5.4%

A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert, 72 pages, 1877

16 votes, 4.5%

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, 48 pages, 1924

15 votes, 4.2%

The Dialogue of the Dogs by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 112 pages, 1613

12 votes, 3.4%

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth, 87 pages, 1800

5 votes, 1.4%

353 total votes

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