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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland in November 30, 1667. He was the second child and only son of his parents. Jonathan Swift’s father died in Dublin before he was born and his mother returned to England after her husband’s death. Jonathan Swift was left in the care of his influential uncle, Godwin.
In February 1702, Jonathan Swift received his Doctor of Divinity degree from Trinity College, Dublin. Then he was starting his visit to England and other countries. He was spending his most of the time in England then. During his visits to England in these years, Jonathan Swift published A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books (1704) and began to gain a reputation as a writer.
The Gulliver’s Travels is regarded as his masterpiece. A large portion of this novel which Jonathan Swift wrote at Woodbrook House in County Laois and it was published in 1726. As with his other writings, the Travels were published under an anonym, the fictional Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon and later a sea captain. The base of this book is a great and sophisticated satire of human nature based on Jonathan Swift's experience of his times. The Gulliver's Travels is an anatomy of human nature, a bitter looking-glass, often criticized for its clear misanthropy.
Each of the four books of this series, recounting four voyages to mostly-fictional isolate and exotic lands. These all books have a different theme, but all are attempts to let down the human pride. The critics were explained the work as a satiric reflection on the shortcomings of Enlightenment thought. He was died in October 19, 1745.
The Gulliver's Travels - Part 1
- by Jonathan Swift
Long ago, there was a landlord in England. He had son named Lemuel Gulliver. When Gulliver grew up he used to sail in the ship as a doctor. He earned enough for that job. Once again he set sail in a ship, named Antelop from the shores of Bristol. Bristol was a small port town in England that time. The ship was on a voyage to the East.
