Author

Books by Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and clergyman who is widely considered the greatest prose satirist in the English language. He was born in Dublin and spent most of his adult life in Ireland, serving as Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral from 1713. His works include A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books, A Modest Proposal, and his Journal to Stella. Gulliver's Travels, published in 1726, was an immediate bestseller and made him internationally famous. He was a committed Irish patriot and a ferocious political polemicist who deployed irony as a weapon of sustained fury.