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Jonathan Swift “Gulliver’s Travels”
Liisa Laur 11.a
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Jonathan Swift(1667-1745) Was born on the 7th of Nov. in Dublin
His father was Irish born and his mother was born in England Kilkenny College, Trinity College in Dublin, M.A. from Hertford College, Oxford Sir William Temple at Moor Park, Farnham
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Esther Johnson Ménière's disease Prebend of Kilroot Politically active, especially the Martinus Scriblerus Club with Alexander Pope, John Gay and John Arbuthnot Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin Was mentally ill before death
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Major works “A Tale of a Tub” “Battle of the Books”
“A Modest Proposal” “Drapier's Letters” poem "Cadenus and Vanessa" “The Journal to Stella” Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships
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“Gulliver’s Travels” 1726, amended 1735 Very popular
divided into four parts
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Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput (May 4, 1699 — April 13, 1702)
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Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag (June 20, 1702 — June 3, 1706)
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Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrig, Luggnagg, and Japan (August 5, 1706 — April 16, 1710)
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Part IV: A Voyage to Houyhnhnms (September 7, 1710 – July 2, 1715)
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