Jonathan Swift was a man of 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 acclaimed biography of John Donne, John Stubbs paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary man and a turbulent period of English and Irish history.
| ISBN: | 9780241962893 |
| Publication date: | 26th October 2017 |
| Author: | John Stubbs |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 768 pages |
| Genres: |
Biography: writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 European history |