Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

By John Stubbs
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“One of the many virtues of John Stubb’s compendious, deeply researched, and absorbing biography is that it illuminates the events not just of Swift’s life but of the world before and around him…In this superb biography, Stubbs succeeds in enabling us to understand the complexities and character of this greatest of writers.”

Times (London)

One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2017

Jonathan Swift's world-famous books?from Gulliver's Travels to A Modest Proposal?are unparalleled in their piercing critique of modern society. Half-orphaned, a Dubliner by birth, but a man who would always insist he was English, Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was a figure of great contradictions. An essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric who became dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Swift satirized the powerful but aspired to political greatness, mocked men's vanity but held himself in high esteem, and was a religious moralizer famed for his malice?a man sharply aware of humanity's flaws, but no less susceptible to them.



At once a revealing biography of a life that encompasses writing on religion, class, sex, power, and poverty and a portrait of the foremost political writer of his day, Jonathan Swift draws a vivid and nuanced account of an extraordinary man and a turbulent period of history.

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