Jonathan Swift, the Irish writer behind "Gulliver's Travels," was born in Dublin on November 30, 1667. Here is a look at his life. It just so happens that I live around 10 miles from a place called ...

If Gulliver could travel through time, instead of sailing around the world, imagine how familiar the Yahoos of Washington would look to him now. What would he say about the roaring Lilliputians and ...

Happy 350th birthday, Jonathan Swift. Widely recognised as the leading satirist in the history of the English language, Swift found his way into the world 350 years ago on November 30, 1667.

When Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, ostensibly by “Lemuel Gulliver”, was published in London in 1726, almost everyone knew that its author was actually Jonathan Swift. Dean of St ...

Gulliver’s Travels is today probably the most widely read literary work of the eighteenth century. Usurping the prominence that Pilgrim’s Progress shared with Paradise Lost in the nineteenth century, ...

Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel. By John Stubbs. W.W. Norton; 752 pages; $39.95. Viking; £25. “A TALE OF A TUB”, “Drapier’s Letters” and “A Modest Proposal”, which envisaged the Irish poor farming ...