Jonathan Swift
Author: Stubbs, John
ISBN: 9780241962893
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 15 Nov 2017
Pages: 768
Format: Paperback / softback
A rich and riveting portrait of the man who wrote Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift's world-famous works - from Gulliver's Travels to A Modest Proposal - are unparalleled in their piercing critique of modern society. But Jonathan Swift was a man of great contradictions: a man who satirized the powerful but aspired to political greatness, who mocked men's vanity but held himself in high esteem, a religious moralizer famed for his malice - a man sharply aware of humanity's flaws, but no less susceptible to them.
As with his massively acclaimed biography of John Donne, John Stubbs paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary man and a turbulent period of English and Irish history.
ISBN: 9780241962893
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 15 Nov 2017
Pages: 768
Format: Paperback / softback
A rich and riveting portrait of the man who wrote Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift's world-famous works - from Gulliver's Travels to A Modest Proposal - are unparalleled in their piercing critique of modern society. But Jonathan Swift was a man of great contradictions: a man who satirized the powerful but aspired to political greatness, who mocked men's vanity but held himself in high esteem, a religious moralizer famed for his malice - a man sharply aware of humanity's flaws, but no less susceptible to them.
As with his massively acclaimed biography of John Donne, John Stubbs paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary man and a turbulent period of English and Irish history.
