| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
739 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [643]-711) and index. |
| Contents |
Ireland and the Civil Wars -- Upbringing -- Abuses of Learning and Religion -- The Temples and the Tub -- Recovering Esther -- Drifting with 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. |
| Summary |
A detailed portrait of the man behind "Gulliver's Travels" traces his early loss of a parent, the contradictions that marked his character, and his achievements as a political writer and dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. |
| Subject |
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. (OCoLC)fst00029322
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Authors, Irish -- 18th century -- Biography.
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Authors, Irish. (OCoLC)fst00822116
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.
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HISTORY / Europe / Ireland.
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HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1799
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780393239423 (hardcover) |
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039323942X (hardcover) |
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