Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel - Brossura

Stubbs, John

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ISBN 10: 0241962897 ISBN 13: 9780241962893

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2017

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

John Stubbs was born in 1977 and studied English at Oxford and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge where he completed a doctorate in 2005. Donne: The Reformed Soul was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Reprobates was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.

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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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0241962897
• ISBN 13: 9780241962893
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 768
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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