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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

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Author

Damrosch, Leopold;Swift, Jonathan

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300205411

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Biography

Rating

4.08 / 5 (115 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13