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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Swift, Jonathan

Swift, Jonathan
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Swift And Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift was an old man already when his masterpiece, Travels Into
Several Remote Nations of the World, was published in 1726. Gulliver's
Travels, as the work came to be called, was an immediate popular success but
it brought its author neither profit nor joy, and, at sixty years of age,
Swift was not concerned with fame; during his long, difficult and frustrating
life, he had already acquired what fame he was to enjoy.

Swift was born in Ireland in 1667; he was educated there and spent much
of his early life in ...

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