Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
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Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than divert it". Wikipedia
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About the Author
Born in 1667, Jonathan Swift was an Irish writer and cleric, best
known for his works Gulliver s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Journal
to Stella, amongst many others. Educated at Trinity College in Dublin,
Swift received his Doctor of Divinity in February 1702, and eventually
became Dean of St. Patrick s Cathedral in Dublin. Publishing under the
names of Lemeul Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, and M. B. Drapier, Swift
was a prolific writer who, in addition to his prose works, composed
poetry, essays, and political pamphlets for both the Whigs and the
Tories, and is considered to be one of the foremost English-language
satirists, mastering both the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. Swift died
in 1745, leaving the bulk of his fortune to found St. Patrick s
Hospital for Imbeciles, a hospital for the mentally ill, which continues
to operate as a psychiatric hospital today.Jonathan Swift(1667 1745), a poet, satirist, and clergyman, published many satirical works, among them A Modest Proposal. Robert DeMaria, Jr. is Henry Noble McCracken Professor of English at Vassar College. He has published widely on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature
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