The complete online text of The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift.

For most general readers, the name Jonathan Swift is associated only with his satiric masterpiece Gulliver's Travels. They are not aware that, in addition to it and hundreds of poems, he wrote a great deal of nonfictional prose, much of it of considerabl...

On 14 August 1725, Jonathan Swift wrote to his friend Charles Ford: "I have finished my Travells, and I am now transcribing them; they are admirable Things, and will wonderfully mend the World." At the age of fifty-seven, Swift had acquired sufficient ex...

(Editor's note: In a departure from normal DLB procedure, the author cites conjectural dates of composition, instead of dates of publication, after Swift 's titles in the text.) Jonathan Swift --author of A Tale Of A Tub (1704), Gulliver's Travels (1726)...

Jonathan Swift's Journal to Stella is a journalistic chronicle of Swift's life in London between 1710 and 1713, and features death as a frequent visitor. The prominence given to death may suggest a deeper motive than one of historical verisimilitude. Swift spent this period...

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