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Gulliver's Travels
Contributor(s): Swift, Jonathan (Author), Womersley, David (Editor)

ISBN: 052184164X ISBN-13: 9780521841641
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

OUR PRICE: $161.50

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2012
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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2012009114

Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift

Physical Information: 1.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (3.40 lbs) 907 pages

Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles

Features: Annotated, Bibliography, Index

Review Citations: Choice 06/01/2013
Books & Culture 07/01/2014 pg. 30

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
Gulliver's Travels is one of the few works of English literature which is also a landmark in world literature. Jonathan Swift's account of Lemuel Gulliver's adventures in the fantastical societies of 'remote nations' was an instant best-seller on publication in 1726 and has remained in the public imagination ever since, as both a satiric fantasy and an analysis of the human condition. This scholarly edition offers an authoritative text, based on the widest possible historical collation of the many editions published in Swift's lifetime; a detailed introduction and textual apparatus; and appendices and illustrations presenting important ancillary material with new clarity. Extensive notes and commentary open out the many layers of meaning and allusion in the text, identify new sources and parallels and offer wide-ranging historical background information. An important addition to the Cambridge Swift Edition, this volume will be indispensable for scholars and students of eighteenth-century literature and ideas.

Contributor Bio(s): Womersley, David: - David Womersley is Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society.

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