Jonathan Swift The Reluctant Rebel |
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Author:
| Stubbs, John |
ISBN: | 978-0-241-96289-3 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2017 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books, Limited
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionJonathan 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.