JONATHAN SWIFT
by Rowse, A. L
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0684145618
- ISBN 13
- 9780684145617
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. A readable and scholarly book. Rowse writes of this key figure in the literature of England and Ireland during the 17th and 18th centuries. 240 pages with index. 25 black-and-white illustrations. Very good (edgeworn at spine and corners but bright and clean interior) in very good dust jacket (edgeworn, a couple of tiny closed tears, looking quite presentable in protective cover).. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.
Synopsis
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub.
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- Bookseller
- Barbara Bilson Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002852
- Title
- JONATHAN SWIFT
- Author
- Rowse, A. L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st American edition
- ISBN 10
- 0684145618
- ISBN 13
- 9780684145617
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Biography, History, Literary criticism, England, Ireland
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIOGRAPHY; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary;
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