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Jonathan Swift

Door Victoria Glendining

Categorie
Secundair
Boeknummer
#291797
Titel
Jonathan Swift
Auteur
Glendining, Victoria
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Pimlico
Jaar van uitgave
1999
ISBN10
0712662626
ISBN13
9780712662628
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, b/w illustrations.
Samenvatting

Jonathan Swift is an infinitely intriguing figure in the literary and political history of England and Ireland. Best known as the author of GULLIVERS TRAVELS, he was an ordained clergyman whose enemies thought did not believe in God. He became a legendary Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, whose ambition for church perferment in Englandwas perpetually frustrated. For four short, intoxicating years he was the intimate of Queen Anne's chief ministers - a 'spin-doctor' before the term was invented. His private life was intense and enigmatic Two younger women whom he called Stella and Vanessa, moved to Ireland to be close to him. He made both of them unhappy. Poet, polemicist, pamphleteer and wit, Swift is the master of shock. His furious satirical responses to the corruption and hypo... (Lees verder)crisy he saw around him in public and private life have every relevance for our own artifice and civilisation, gave a new adjective - Swiftian -to the lexicon of criticism. Victoria Glendinning, prize-winning biographer, investigates at close range the main events and relationships of Swift's life, providing a compelling and provocative portrait set in a rich tapestry of controversy and paradox.
Pagina's
324
Conditie
Goed — Partly browned.
Prijs
€ 6,00

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