The Writings of Jonathan Swift
by Jonathan Swift, Robert A. Greenberg, William B. Piper
ISBN-10: 0393094154
ISBN-13: 9780393094152
$26.00
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Paper
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Published on
May 17, 1973
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
5.20x0.90x8.40 Inches
Weight
1.13 Pounds
About the Book
Included are Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a Tub, The Battel of the Books, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, numerous essays and other prose pieces, and poems, among them several that are rarely reprinted. All of the texts are scrupulously edited and annotated.
Backgrounds includes correspondence between Swift and members of his circle and observations by his contemporaries.
Criticism offers evaluations by Norman O. Brown, Samuel Holt Monk, Allan Bloom, Nigel Dennis, Edward W. Rosenheim, Jr., A. E. Dyson, William Frost, C. J. Rawson, Kathleen Williams, Martin Price, Robert M. Adams, and Jay Arnold Levine.
An Annotated Bibliography guides the reader to important works for further study.