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Jonathan Swift is most beneficial appreciated today as the author of Gulliver's Vacations, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained on the net for nearly three generations. Yet Swift also published many other influential works, was a significant political and religious physique in his time, and became a nationwide hero, beloved for his fierce protest against British exploitation of his local Ireland. What is absolutely known today about the enigmatic man behind these accomplishments? Can the reality of his life be separated from the fictions? With this deeply researched biography, Leo Damrosch attracts on discoveries made over the past 30 years in order to the story of Swift's life anew. Probing openings in the prevailing evidence, he calls for really some daring speculations about Swift's parentage, love life, and various personal romantic relationships and shows how Swift's general population version of his life - the main one accepted until recently - was deliberately misleading. Swift hidden areas of himself and his romantic 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 vibrant the sights, looks, and smells of his British and Irish area. Through his own words and the ones of a wide circle of friends, a intricate Swift emerges: a restless, combative, empathetic physique, a guy of biting wit and powerful brain, and a significant figure in the annals of world words.
