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Jonathan Swift

Lifespan
1667 – 1745
Nationality
Irish
Active
1726
Works held
9

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), the great Anglo-Irish satirist, wrote Gulliver’s Travels (1726), a fantastic voyage whose flying island of Laputa, immortal Struldbruggs and rational Houyhnhnms make it a direct ancestor of science fiction. Swift used the imaginary journey to dissect politics, science and human folly with unmatched savagery, establishing a template the genre has drawn on ever since.

The works

  1. 1726
    Cover of Gulliver's Reis Naar Liliput Gulliver's Reis Naar Liliput Cover of Gulliver's Travels Gulliver's Travels G Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World Cover of Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World Cover of Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World Cover of Gulliverin matkat kaukaisilla mailla Gulliverin matkat kaukaisilla mailla Cover of Les voyages de Gulliver Les voyages de Gulliver Cover of Viaggj del Capitano Lemuel Gulliver in Diversi Paesi Lontani Viaggj del Capitano Lemuel Gulliver in Diversi Paesi Lontani Cover of Voyages du Capitaine Lemuel Gulliver, En Divers Pays Eloignes, Tome II de III Voyages du Capitaine Lemuel Gulliver, En Divers Pays Eloignes, Tome II de III

Wrote across

Pre-1800

Recurring themes

Social SFAdventure

Kindred authors shared themes

Alan Edward NourseAlfred CoppelArthur Dekker SavageAustin BierbowerBarry PainBasil WellsBryce WaltonC. M. Kornbluth

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Ludvig HolbergCyrano de BergeracRobert PaltockJacques CazotteVoltaireWilliam BeckfordWilliam ShakespeareAlain René Le SageArend Fokke SimonszCarl Ignaz Geiger

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