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3742767Jonathan Swifthttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/jonathan-swift-9780241962909/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3676072/df7cca47-82a6-4328-b5ee-d69fbb69bae4.jpg?v=638385714434600000240282MXNPenguin Books LtdInStock/Ebooks/<p>Born in Ireland in 1667, Jonathan Swift defiantly clung to his Englishness. He refused to relinquish this attachment even as corruption and injustice gradually led him to turn against the English government. In a long life, Swift proved a reluctant rebel, though one with a relish for the fight, and implacable when provoked - a voice of withering disenchantment unrivalled in English. But he was also an inspired humorist, a beloved companion, a conscientious Anglican minister, as well as a hoaxer and a teller of tales. His anger against abuses of power would produce the most famous satire of the English language - Gullivers Travels as well as the Drapier Papers and the unparallelled Modest Proposal, in which he imagined the poor of Ireland farming their infants for the tables of wealthy colonists.</p><p>John Stubbs biography sets out to capture the dirt and beauty of a world that Swift both scorned and sought to amend. It follows Swift through his many battles, for and against authority, and in his many contradictions, as a priest who sought to uphold the dogma of his church; as a man who was quite prepared to defy convention, not least in his unshakeable attachment to an unmarried woman, his Stella; and as a writer whose vision showed that no single creed holds all of the answers.</p>...3679097Jonathan Swift240282https://www.gandhi.com.mx/jonathan-swift-9780241962909/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3676072/df7cca47-82a6-4328-b5ee-d69fbb69bae4.jpg?v=638385714434600000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20169780241962909_W3siaWQiOiIyZjRlMGVkOC00YjhiLTQ2Y2ItYmU0Ni01MGY4ZTIxMzAxNTIiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI4NiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjQzLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI0MywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780241962909_<p>Born in Ireland in 1667, Jonathan Swift defiantly clung to his Englishness. He refused to relinquish this attachment even as corruption and injustice gradually led him to turn against the English government. In a long life, Swift proved a reluctant rebel, though one with a relish for the fight, and implacable when provoked - a voice of withering disenchantment unrivalled in English. But he was also an inspired humorist, a beloved companion, a conscientious Anglican minister, as well as a hoaxer and a teller of tales. His anger against abuses of power would produce the most famous satire of the English language - Gullivers Travels as well as the Drapier Papers and the unparallelled Modest Proposal, in which he imagined the poor of Ireland farming their infants for the tables of wealthy colonists.</p><p>John Stubbs biography sets out to capture the dirt and beauty of a world that Swift both scorned and sought to amend. It follows Swift through his many battles, for and against authority, and in his many contradictions, as a priest who sought to uphold the dogma of his church; as a man who was quite prepared to defy convention, not least in his unshakeable attachment to an unmarried woman, his Stella; and as a writer whose vision showed that no single creed holds all of the answers.</p>...9780241962909_Penguin Books Ltdlibro_electonico_50d34b45-fc33-320e-9666-526c89d346c9_9780241962909;9780241962909_9780241962909John StubbsInglésMéxico2016-11-03T00:00:00+00:00Penguin Books Ltd