Jonathan Swift
- ISBN-10
- 080576982X
- ISBN-13
- 9780805769821
- Series
- Jonathan Swift
- Category
- Literary Criticism / General
- Pages
- 152
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Twayne
- Author
- Robert Hunting
Description
Profiles the life of the author of "Gulliver's Travels," and analyzes this novel as well as his poems
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