Jonathan Swift

by Victoria Glendinning

Book Overview

A prize-winning biographer tells the story of the immortal Swift. Poet, polemicist, pamphleteer, and wit, Swift is the master of shock. His furious satirical responses to the corruption and hypocrisy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805061681
• ISBN13: 9780805061680
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Well written personal view

This is no day by day chronicle of a life. Rather, a gerneral view and personal description, 'what Swift is to me'. Once this premise is accepted, the book reads easily, the style is great,the few pictures helpful. The author can be seem to be opinionated or not, but she is always in the background. I had a great time reading this,and I knew very little of Swift beforhand. Now I would like to travel to Dublin, so I guess the book achieved at least something...