Jonathan Swift 
Gulliver’s Travels 

Gulliver’s Travels is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and the ‘travellers’ tales’ literary subgenre. It is Swift’s best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. (from wikipedia.org)

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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.

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, and is less well known for his poetry.

He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms.
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