Gulliver's Travels (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)

by JonathanSwift (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1991

  $24.25

• Used

  Paperback
  2009

  $3.48

• Used

  Hardcover
  1983

  $3.48

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $19.01

  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.

• New

  Hardcover
  1991

  $16.10

  Uses the narrative of a mock travel writer to explore exotic and imaginary locations. This book mounts a scathing attack on the morals, politics and learning of the 18th century, culminating in possibly the greatest satire ever written: the story of the Houyhnhnms.