Jonathan Swift Book summary

Johnathan was born in Dublin, Ireland, on November 30, 1667, to Johnathan Swift the elder, who was an English Lawyer. Johnathan Swift studied at Trinity College for 7 years and graduated in 1688. In that very year of his graduation, he secured the position of secretary to Sir William Temple, a politician from the Whig party. He took religious orders in the Church of Ireland, after which he served a year as a country parson and then later as a chaplain for the earl of Berkeley. He switched to the Tory party in 1710 after he had a conflict with the Whigs and because the deeply religious Swift appreciated Tory's conservative stance. However, four short years later, the Tory party lost power, and Swift had to return to Ireland to take up the position of Dean for St. Patrick's.

Gulliver had begun to write satire early in his life, A life of Tub and The Battle of the Books are some other popular examples. He met several influential writers during his time in London, that included the likes of Alexander Pope.

Later in life, Swift suffered from a paralytic stroke and was declared unable to care for himself, and so had to appoint guardians. He passed away three years after the stroke.