Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel By John Stubbs Norton. 739 pp. $39.95 Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is commonly regarded as the towering misanthrope of English letters. William Thackeray described him as "an immense genius" but "an awful downfall and ruin" whose habitual way of being was to remain constantly "alone and gnashing in the darkness." George Orwell, who numbered "Gulliver's Travels" (1726) among his [...]
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