Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift is best known for Gulliver's Travels, which is a parody of a travel narrative. Published in 1726, it mocks English customs and the politics of the day. Best known as the author of A Modest Proposal (1729), Gulliver’s Travels (1726), and A Tale Of A Tub (1704), Swift is widely acknowledged as the greatest prose satirist in the history of English literature.