The Works of Jonathan Swift

A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between
the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome
 (1701)


Complete - Google Books


A Tale of a Tub  (1704)

Complete - University of Adelaide
Complete - Project Gutenberg
Complete - Google Books


The Battle of the Books  (1704)

Complete - Google Books
Complete - Jack Lynch
Complete - University of Adelaide


A Trip to Dunkirk, or A Hue and Cry after the Pretended Prince of Wales  (1708)

Complete - Google Books


Predictions for the year 1708; written to prevent the people
of England from being further impos'd on by vulgar almanack-makers,
by Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.
 (1708)


Complete - Google Books


The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions:
Being an Account of the Death of Mr. Partridge, the almanack-maker
 (1708)


Complete - Google Books


A Grub Street Elegy, on the Supposed Death
of Mr. Partridge, the Almanac-Maker
 (1708)


Complete - Google Books


Baucis and Philemon  (1708)

Complete - Google Books


An Argument against Abolishing Christianity in England (1708)

Complete - Google Books
Complete - UAdelaide


A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.  (1709)

Complete - Google Books


Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation  (1709)

Complete - Project Bartleby


A famous Prediction of Merlin, the British Wizard  (1709)

(aka Merlin's Prophecy)

Complete - Google Books


A Letter concerning the Sacramental Test  (1709)

Complete - Google Books


A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners  (1709)

Complete - Google Books


A Meditation upon a Broom-Stick  (1710)

Complete - Google Books
Complete - University of Adelaide


The Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician's Rod  (1710)

Complete - Google Books


A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue  (1712)

Complete - GB
Complete - Jack Lynch
Complete - UAdelaide


Some Advice Humbly Offer'd to the Members of the October Club  (1712)

Complete - Google Books


The Conduct of the Allies  (1712, pub. 1713)

Complete - Google Books


The Public Spirit of the Whigs  (1714)

Complete - Google Books


A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufactures  (1720)

Complete - Google Books


A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet  (1721)

Complete - Google Books
Complete - Project Bartelby


Gulliver's Travels  (1726)

Complete - Google Books
Complete - Renascence Editions
Complete - UAdelaide
Complete - Lee Jaffe


A Short View of the State of Ireland  (1727)

Complete - Google Books


An Account of the Empire of Japan  (1728)

Complete - Lee Jaffe


An Essay on Modern Education  (1728)

Complete - Lee Jaffe


A Modest Proposal  (1729)

Complete - Renascence Editions
Complete - UAdelaide
Complete - Google Books



Swift the Journalist


Contributions to The Examiner  (1710-14)

Extensive Selections - GB
Number XIII. 1710.
Number XIV. 1710. - Philip Atkinson


Editing The Intelligencer with Sheridan  (1728)

Number I
Number III
Number VI
Number XIX



Poetical Works


Cadenus and Vanessa  (1713, pub. 1726)

Complete - Luminarium Editions


Political Poems

The Tale of a Nettle (1710)
The Fable of Midas (1711)
Peace and Dunkirk (1712)
The Fable of the Bitches (1715)
The Bubble: A Poem; aka, The South Sea Project (1721)
Prometheus (1724)



Works of Questionable Attribution

    Jack Frenchman's Lamentation  (1708)

    (also attributed to Prior and Congreve)

    Complete - Google Books


    The Story of St. Alban's Ghost  (1712)

    (also attributed to W. Wagstaffe and J. Arbuthnot)

    Complete - Google Books


    Poems of Questionable Attribution

    The Widow and her Cat (also ascribed to Prior)





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