# Jonathan Swift

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- Book: [Jonathan Swift](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-stubbs/jonathan-swift) ([Jonathan Swift.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-stubbs/jonathan-swift.md))
- Authors: [John Stubbs](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-stubbs)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-290-9
- Published: 2016-11-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Jonathan Swift's world-famous works - from Gulliver's Travels to A Modest Proposal - are unparalleled in their piercing critique of modern society. But Jonathan Swift was a man of great contradictions: a man who satirized the powerful but aspired to political greatness, who mocked men's vanity but held himself in high esteem, a religious moralizer famed for his malice - a man sharply aware of humanity's flaws, but no less susceptible to them. As with his acclaimed biography of John Donne , John Stubbs paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary man and a turbulent period of English and Irish history.