{"product_id":"9780393634150","title":"Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA rich and riveting portrait of the man behind \u003cem\u003eGulliver’s Travels\u003c\/em\u003e, by a “vivid, ardent, and engaging” (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e) author.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne of Europe’s most important literary figures, Jonathan Swift was also an inspired humorist, a beloved companion, and 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 satires of the English language: \u003cem\u003eGulliver’s Travels\u003c\/em\u003e as well as the \u003cem\u003eDrapier Papers\u003c\/em\u003e and the unparalleled \u003cem\u003eModest Proposal\u003c\/em\u003e, in which he imagined the poor of Ireland farming their infants for the tables of wealthy colonists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Stubbs’s biography captures 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 unshakable attachment to an unmarried woman, his “Stella”; and as a writer whose vision showed that no single creed holds all the answers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImpeccably researched and beautifully told, in \u003cem\u003eJonathan Swift\u003c\/em\u003e Stubbs has found the perfect subject for this masterfully told biography of a reluctant rebel—a voice of withering disenchantment unrivaled in English.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121470390512,"sku":"9780393634150","price":34.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393634150_p0.jpg?v=1763697558","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393634150","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}