Jonathan Swift : the reluctant rebel / John Stubbs
2016, gg34b. [London] : Viking. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #420901
Physical description; 739 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Contents; Incomplete contents Ireland and the civil wars -- Upbringing -- Abuses of learning and religion -- The temples and the tub -- Recovering Esther -- Drifting with the Whigs, 1702-1709 -- Recruited by Tories, 1710-1714 -- The phantom academy -- Small dominions -- Bursting bubbles -- Dean Gulliver -- Indecency and indignation -- The last of the gold -- Sanctuary. Subjects; Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745. Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745 ; Biography. Church of Ireland Clergy ; Biography. Authors, Irish 18th century ; Biography. Authors, Irish. Authors, Irish 19th century ; Biography. Satirists, Irish ; Biography. Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers. British & Irish History. Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800. Authors, Irish 18th century ; Biography. Authors, Irish 19th century ; Biography. Literature. History, Ireland.
Price: €14.95