{"product_id":"2940170127467","title":"Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel","description":"Jonathan Swift's world-famous books?from \u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eA Modest Proposal\u003ci\u003e?are unparalleled in their piercing critique of modern society. Half-orphaned, a Dubliner by birth, but a man who would always insist he was English, Jonathan Swift (1667¿1745) was a figure of great contradictions. An essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric who became dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Swift satirized the powerful but aspired to political greatness, mocked men¿s vanity but held himself in high esteem, and was a religious moralizer famed for his malice?a man sharply aware of humanity's flaws, but no less susceptible to them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once a revealing biography of a life that encompasses writing on religion, class, sex, power, and poverty and a portrait of the foremost political writer of his day, \u003ci\u003eJonathan Swift\u003c\/i\u003e draws a vivid and nuanced account of an extraordinary man and a turbulent period of history.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"HighBridge Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100599730416,"sku":"2940170127467","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170127467_p0.jpg?v=1763702939","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170127467","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}