The Twitnam Summer

Hester Grant

Sinopsis

'A rollicking, brilliant book' GARETH RUSSELL, author of Queen James 
'A very fine piece of biographical work, erudite but accessible' JOHN STUBBS, author of Jonathan Swift  
A rollicking narrative history set during the extraordinary summer of 1726 when Jonathan Swift arrived in London from Dublin, with a draft of Gulliver’s Travels in his bag. 
Jonathan Swift settled into his great friend Alexander Pope’s new house on the river at Twickenham (or Twitnam as they liked to call it), and joined by John Gay, the trio of Scriblerus Club writers spent a delightful and creative summer, pushing each other to new satirical heights (The Dunciad and The Beggar’s Opera also ensued), exploring the gardens and houses of their aristocratic friends and thinking up ways to torment Robert Walpole’s corrupt Whig administration without going to jail. 
An unlikely threesome in many ways – Swift was 20 years older, and Gay was as large and indolent as Pope was tiny and restless – “the three Yahoos of Twittenham” were unmarried and took great emotional and intellectual succour from their friendship. 
The three of them added up to more than the sum of their considerable parts and, as well as being a brilliant evocation of the radical rage, the joy and stench of early eighteenth century life, The Twitnam Summer is also a very moving portrait of male friendship. 
Blending biography with 18th-century history, this literary work follows English and Irish figures at the heart of Britain’s social world, where wit becomes a weapon of criticism. Modern in its pace and insight, it’s among the best non-fiction accounts of how European ideas and rivalries shaped an age. 
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HarperCollins 2026

Duración: alrededor de 10 horas (10:08:59)
Fecha de publicación: 04/06/2026; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —