Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel

John Stubbs

Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
15 November 2017
Pages
768
ISBN
9780241962893

Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel

John Stubbs

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.

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