Jonathan Swift
By: Victoria Glendinning.
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Swift, Jonathan, -- 1667-1745; Church of Ireland -- Clergy -- Biography; Authors, Irish -- 18th century -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Poet, polemicist, pamphleteer and wit, Swift is best known as the author of "Gulliver's Travels". In this biography, Victoria Glendinning investigates the main events and relationships of Swift's life and provides a portrait set in a tapestry of controversy and paradox.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-311) and index.