num_pages: 265
description: Born of English parents in Dublin, Ireland, in 1667, Jonathan Swift lived in a time of unprecedented political and intellectual change, and his career and writing bear the marks of these momentous changes. Although his professional life centered on the Church of England, it was his brilliance as a writer that brought him, briefly, into the center of power as chief publicist for the Tory regime. With the dissolution of the Harley regime, however, Swift was "exiled" back to Ireland, where he spent the remaining decades of his life as Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
language: English
title: A Modest Proposal and Other Prose
titlecomplete: A Modest Proposal and Other Prose
genres: Fiction, Humor, Classics
ratings_count: 38
publisher: Barnes & Noble Books