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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 · 388,480 ratings · 12,520 reviews · 5,032 distinct works • Similar authors

	Gulliver’s Travels 3.59 avg rating — 295,050 ratings — published 1726 — 3873 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 — 48,587 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 — 14,600 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 — 6,236 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 — 5,850 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 — 162 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 — 584 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 — 145 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

November 2015 Short Story Poll

1933, The Red Pony by John Steinbeck, 120 pages

36 votes, 26.3%

1952, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages

32 votes, 23.4%

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

18 votes, 13.1%

1865, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov, 88 pages

16 votes, 11.7%

1729, A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works by Jonathan Swift, 48 pages

13 votes, 9.5%

1971, Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier, Title Story Only 130 pages

9 votes, 6.6%

1871, Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 108 pages

6 votes, 4.4%

1939, The Legend of The Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth, 120 pages

5 votes, 3.6%

1955, Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, 128 pages

2 votes, 1.5%

1979, Field Work by Seamus Heaney, 66 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

137 total votes

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