Chiudi

Aggiungi l'articolo in

Chiudi
Aggiunto

L’articolo è stato aggiunto alla lista dei desideri

Chiudi

Crea nuova lista

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World - Leo Damrosch - cover
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World - Leo Damrosch - cover
Dati e Statistiche
Wishlist Salvato in 0 liste dei desideri
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
Disponibilità in 5 giorni lavorativi
17,80 €
-5% 18,74 €
17,80 € 18,74 € -5%
Disp. in 5 gg lavorativi
Chiudi
Altri venditori
Prezzo e spese di spedizione
ibs
17,80 € Spedizione gratuita
disponibilità in 5 giorni lavorativi disponibilità in 5 giorni lavorativi
Info
Nuovo
Altri venditori
Prezzo e spese di spedizione
ibs
17,80 € Spedizione gratuita
disponibilità in 5 giorni lavorativi disponibilità in 5 giorni lavorativi
Info
Nuovo
Altri venditori
Prezzo e spese di spedizione
Chiudi

Tutti i formati ed edizioni

Chiudi
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World - Leo Damrosch - cover

Descrizione


Winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography: The life of satirist Jonathan Swift, written by a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature "Superb. . . . Damrosch's outstanding book has raised Swift's provocative genius to life."-Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal 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 English exploitation of his native Ireland. What is really known today about the enigmatic man behind these accomplishments? Can the facts of his life be separated from the fictions? In this deeply researched biography, Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift's life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift's parentage, love life, and various personal relationships and shows how Swift's public version of his life-the one accepted until recently-was deliberately misleading. Swift concealed aspects of himself and his relationships, and other people in his life helped to keep his secrets. Assembling suggestive clues, Damrosch re-narrates the events of Swift's life while making vivid the sights, sounds, and smells of his English and Irish surroundings.Through his own words and those of a wide circle of friends, a complex Swift emerges: a restless, combative, empathetic figure, a man of biting wit and powerful mind, and a major figure in the history of world letters.
Leggi di più Leggi di meno

Dettagli

2014
Paperback / softback
592 p.
Testo in English
210 x 140 mm
572 gr.
9780300205411
Chiudi
Aggiunto

L'articolo è stato aggiunto al carrello

Chiudi

Aggiungi l'articolo in

Chiudi
Aggiunto

L’articolo è stato aggiunto alla lista dei desideri

Chiudi

Crea nuova lista

Chiudi

Chiudi

Siamo spiacenti si è verificato un errore imprevisto, la preghiamo di riprovare.

Chiudi

Verrai avvisato via email sulle novità di Nome Autore