Gulliver's travels and other writings
Subtitle: complete text with introduction, historical context, critical essays
By: Jonathan Swift ; edited by Clement Hawes, with "A note on the texts" by Robert J. Griffin.
Contributors: Hawes, Clement.
Series: New Riverside editions
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 550
Subjects: Voyages, Imaginary -- Early works to 1800.; Travelers -- Fiction.; Utopias -- Fiction.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Fiction.
Description: A selection of writings by seventeenth-century author Jonathan Swift, featuring the satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels," as well as poems, sermons, pamphlets, and letters, and including an introduction and critical essays.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 525-535).
Includes reprints of five of Swift's Irish pamphlets, some of his pertinent poems and correspondence and relevant eighteenth-century material, including South-Sea voyage literature and political arguments.