文档介绍:Jonathan Swift
乔治森-斯威夫特
☆(born Nov. 30, 1667, Dublin. — died Oct. 19, 1745, Dublin) Irish(爱尔兰)author, the foremost (最重要的)prose satirist(散文讽刺作家)in English.
★He was a student at Dublin‘s Trinity College during the anti-Catholic(天主教) Revolution of 1688 in England. Irish Catholic reaction in Dublin led Swift, a Protestant, to seek security in England, where he spent various intervals before 1714.
★ He was ordained(任命) an Anglican priest(牧师) in 1695. His first major work, A Tale of a Tub (1704), comprises three satiric sketches on religion and learning。
小人国
Lilliput
大人国
Brobdingnag
慧骃国
Houyhnhnm
The four countries
飞岛国
"When bending my eyes downward as much as I could, I perceived a human not six inches high!"
The king of lilliput
Why I love this book