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The writings of Jonathan Swift;: Authoritative texts, backgrounds, criticism, (A Norton critical edition) - Hardcover
Synopsis
This volume contains the complete and definitive texts of virtually all of Swift's major works, as well as a generous selection of his poetry and other writings.
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.
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About the Author
Robert A. Greenberg was Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York, and taught at Cornell and New York University. He was co-author of Robert Frost: An Introduction and Modern Essays: A Rhetorical Approach, and editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Gulliver's Travels.
William B. Piper is Professor Emeritus of English at Rice University. He has taught at Cornell University, the University of Louisville, and Western Reserve University. He has published Laurence Sterne, The Heroic Couplet, The Literature of Common Sense, and many scholarly articles.
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- PublisherNorton
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0393042839
- ISBN 13 9780393042832
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages721
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good++. No Jacket. Edited by Robert A. Greenberg and William Bowman Piper; a Norton Critical Edition; light edge wear to covers, small corner crease to front cover, larger corner crease to rear cover, and some discoloration to top page ends; glued spine firm, smooth, and uncracked; text pages very tight, clean, square, and unmarked--indeed, seemingly never read, perhaps never opened; particularly valuable for its full and authoritative text of "A Tale of a Tub"; 721 pp. Seller Inventory # 002887
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