It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations.
"Contexts" collects materials that influenced Swift's writing of the novel, as well as documents that suggest its initial reception, including Swift's correspondence, Alexander Pope's poems on Gulliver's Travels, and relevant passages from Gargantua and Pantagruel.
"Criticism" includes fourteen assessments of Gulliver's Travels by the Earl of Orrery, Sir Walter Scott, Pat Rogers, Michael McKen, J.A. Downie, J. Paul Hunter, Laura Brown, Douglas Lane Patey, Dennis Todd, Richard H. Rodino. Irvin Ehrenpreis, Janine Barchas, Claude Rawson, and Howard D. Weinbrot.
A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
ISBN: 9780393957242
Number of pages: 528
Weight: 443 g
Dimensions: 213 x 130 x 30 mm
Believing this to be the most authentic edition of a comprehensive account of the author’s seafaring voyages.
Very Good to have for people who loves to learn by reading the original editions especially in the...
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I read this when I was much younger, around the age of 14. I have to admit of all the classics I read it was one of the hardest to get into. The plot is fine but I remember feeling as if I was wading through treacle... More
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