Jonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub.
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Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)
Born | 30 November 1667 |
Died | 19 October 1745 |
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Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)
Born | 30 November 1667 |
Died | 19 October 1745 |
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Politics and government, Early works to 1800, Imaginary Voyages, Fiction, History, English literature, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Humor, Travelers, English Satire, Coinage, Fiction, fantasy, general, Correspondence, Fiction, satire, Lemuel Gulliver (Fictitious character), Poetry, Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714, Swift, jonathan, 1667-1745, Money, Irish Authors, Pamphlets, English Political satire, Irish authors, Juvenile fiction, Children's fictionPlaces
Great Britain, Ireland, Athens (Greece), England, Rome, Ying guo, Netherlands, Dublin, Araby, Araby bazaar, North Richmond Street, Calcutta, Carthage, Dublin (Ireland), Dunkerque (France), France, India, Italy, Lilliput, Lilliput and Blefuscu (Fictitious Islands), London, London (England), Milan, Naples, Rome (Italy)People
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), William Wood (1671-1730), Richard Steele Sir (1672-1729), Esther Johnson (1681-1728), Anne Queen of Great Britain (1665-1714), John Partridge (1644-1715), Lemuel Gulliver (Fictitious character), Patrick Delany (1685 or 6-1768), Alexander Pope (1688-1744), Daniel Finch Nottingham Earl of (1647-1730), John Carteret Earl Granville (1690-1763), John Churchill Marlborough Duke of (1650-1722), Thomas Wharton Wharton Marquess of (1648?-1715), Anthony Collins (1676-1729), Horace, John Browne Sir, Mangan's sister, Mary Toft (1703-1763), Matthew Prior (1664-1721), Nathanael St. André (1680-1776), Patrick Delany (1685 or 1686-1768), Robert Harley Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, William Shakespeare (1564-1616), (Fictitious Characters)Time
18th century, 1702-1714, Anne, 1702-1714, Jin dai, 1660-1714, 1689-1702, 1714-1727, 15th and 16th centuries, 1603-1714, 1648-1714, 1712, 1714-1837, 1724., 17th century, 1912, 510 B.C.-30 B.C., 510-30 B.C, Early works to 1800, Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713, Siglo XVIII, The Controversy of Wood's Halfpence, Xian daiID Numbers
- OLID: OL24522A
- Amazon ID: B001HCV1RG
- BookBrainz: d57c2ab8-8388-4949-931b-ae5a45bb824f
- GoodReads: 1831
- ISNI: 0000000121214321
- IMDb: nm0842605
- Library of Congress Names: n78096912
- LibraryThing: swiftjonathan
- LibriVox: 1038
- MusicBrainz: 9ab4a3b4-3206-4c12-ac6b-50d64ca98119
- Project Gutenberg: 326
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV004182
- VIAF: 14777110
- Wikidata: Q41166
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q41166
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Alternative names
- J. Swift
- Johnathan Swift
- スウィフト,ジョナサン
- Shi hui fu tuo
- (ying) Si, wei fu te
- (ying) Siwei, Fute
- Jonathan Dean Swift
- Si, Weifute Swift, Jonathan
- Dr Jonathan Swift
- Jonathan Swift Swift
- Lemuel Gulliver
- Джонатан Свифт
- Д. Свифт
- Dr. Jonathan Swift
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