In its abridged form, Gulliver's Travels has become a children's classic. But in full, it is a misanthropic satire, scathing of politicians.
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Gulliver's Travels author and satirist used baby talk for coded intimacy in journal of letters.
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How fitting that the man often credited with saying “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its...
92 months ago

A new biography of the great ironist is convincing about his private life – was he sexually twisted? By John Mullan.
132 months ago

By Claude Rawson Jonathan Swift, whom T. S. Eliot called “colossal,” “the greatest writer of English prose, and the greatest man who has...
135 months ago

Jonathan Swift, (born Nov. 30, 1667, Dublin, Ire.—died Oct. 19, 1745, Dublin), Irish author, the foremost prose satirist in English...
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To The Editor: I would like to thank the recent letter writer who complained about my letter criticizing of the Newtown Hook and Ladder's...
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Jonathan Swift used to ridicule the idiotic “modern” idea of understanding writers through their biography. He thought it ridiculous to...
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Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels comes third in our list of the best novels written in English. Robert McCrum discusses a satirical masterpiece that's never...
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With more than 900 new entries, including crossover, YA and graphic novels, this is an indispensable guide for old hands and new.
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