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Swift
In his succinct and penetrating survey of Swift's life and work, John Middleton Murry draws attention to the paradoxes that we everywhere encounter when we study that enigmatic figure. Gulliver's Travels, which has long been read as a fairy-tale by children, is in fact one of the most sear...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
1961.
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| Colección: | Writers and Their Work Series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In his succinct and penetrating survey of Swift's life and work, John Middleton Murry draws attention to the paradoxes that we everywhere encounter when we study that enigmatic figure. Gulliver's Travels, which has long been read as a fairy-tale by children, is in fact one of the most searing indictments of humanity ever penned; and its author deliberately shielded himself from all contact with children. Again, Swift, the apostle of rationalism, died w. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (45 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781802079777 1802079777 |