Jonathan 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. 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. What is really known today about the enigmatic man behind these accomplishments? Can the facts of his life be separated from the ...
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Jonathan 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. 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. What is really known today about the enigmatic man behind these accomplishments? Can the facts of his life be separated from the fictions? In this deeply researched biography, Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift's life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift's parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift's public version of his life-the one accepted until recently-was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed aspects of himself and his relationships, and other people in his life helped to keep his secrets. Assembling suggestive clues, Damrosch re-narrates the events of Swift's life while making vivid the sights, sounds, and smells of his English and Irish surroundings.Through his own words and those of a wide circle of friends, a complex Swift emerges: a restless, combative, empathetic figure, a man of biting wit and powerful mind, and a major figure in the history of world letters.
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Very Good Condition in Near Fine jacket. 9780300164992. VG/Near Fine 1st ed 2013 Yale hardback, unclipped DJ. Inky residue marks to edge of page block else near fine tight and unmarked. Immediate dispatch Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0300164998. ISBN/EAN: 9780300164992. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 078087.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; The binding is tight, bottom corner of the back panel lightly bumped. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. 8vo. ix, 573pp.
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Good in good dust jacket. First Edition. DJ with mild edgewear or bumping. Light shelf wear on DJ. Else clean and tight. Mild general wear. Pages clean. Binding sound. First edition with full number line.
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Fair. Obviously well-worn, but no text pages missing. May have highlighting and marginalia, but markings do not interfere with readability. Textbooks do not have accompanying CDs or access codes. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 573 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Maps.
