Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel
  • Published: 15 November 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241962893
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 500
  • RRP: $30.00

Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel

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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.
  • Published: 15 November 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241962893
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 500
  • RRP: $30.00
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John Stubbs

John Stubbs is currently studying for his Phd at Cambridge University. Donne: The Reformed Soul is his first book.

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Praise for Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel

In this superb biography, Stubbs succeeds in enabling us to understand the complexities and character of this greatest of writers

The Times

Fine and sensitive. Stubbs succeeds in offering something delicate, subtle and new

Ruth Scurr, Financial Times

Stubbs is an ideal guide to the tortuous ins and outs of Swift's time, and their effects on his writing

Daily Telegraph

Splendid, outstanding, deeply sympathetic, by turns elegant, racy, allusive

Prospect

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