Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift 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…
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Jonathan Swift
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. . . . 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. Damrosch's outstanding book has raised Swift's provocative genius to life."--Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street JournalJonathan 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.
Can the facts of his life be separated from the fictions? What is really known today about the enigmatic man behind these accomplishments?