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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
A
Franz Kafka
B
George Eliot
C
Charles Dickens
D
Jonathan Swift
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels was first published in 1726 under the title Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. The fantastical narrative was initially presented as a factual account written by ‘Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships’.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver’s Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language.

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