num_pages: 260
description: Provides the original 1798 text of Malthus's classic essay together with later revisions, and collects background and source materials and supportive and critical commentaries dating from the early 1800s to the present.
language: English
title: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Text, Sources and Background, Criticism
titlecomplete: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Text, Sources and Background, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition)
genres: Sociology, History, Classics, Science, Economics, Philosophy, Essays, 18th Century, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1701
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company