Jonathan Swift: His Life And His World
  • Jonathan Swift: His Life And His World
  • Jonathan Swift: His Life And His World
  • Jonathan Swift: His Life And His World
ISBN: 0300205414
EAN13: 9780300205411
Language: English
Release Date: Aug 5, 2014
Pages: 592
Dimensions: 1.7" H x 8.3" L x 5.5" W
Weight: 1.3 lbs.
Format: Paperback
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Book Overview

Winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography: The life of satirist Jonathan Swift, written by a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature

Superb. . . . Damrosch's outstanding book has raised Swift's provocative genius to life.--Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal

Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver's Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became a national hero, beloved for his fierce protest against English exploitation of his native Ireland. What is really known today about the enigmatic man behind these accomplishments? Can the facts of his life be separated from the fictions?

In this deeply researched biography, Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift's life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift's parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift's public version of his life--the one accepted until recently--was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed aspects of himself and his relationships, and other people in his life Read More chevron_right

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