{"product_id":"twitnam-summer","title":"Twitnam Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A rollicking, brilliant book'\u003c\/strong\u003e GARETH RUSSELL, author of \u003cem\u003eQueen James\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A very fine piece of biographical work, erudite but accessible' \u003c\/strong\u003eJOHN STUBBS, author of \u003cem\u003eJonathan Swift \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003eA rollicking narrative history set during the extraordinary summer of 1726 when Jonathan Swift arrived in London from Dublin, with a draft of \u003cem\u003eGulliver’s Travels\u003c\/em\u003e in his bag.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eJonathan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eThe 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, Th\u003cem\u003ee Twitnam Summer\u003c\/em\u003e is also a very moving portrait of male friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56409028690264,"sku":"9780008699987","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780008699987_0fc5973d-9c9a-4328-bd52-5e33a5ecf8b5.jpg?v=1780431324","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/twitnam-summer","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}