Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World

Author: Leo Damrosch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography 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...Read more