- Paperback: 752 pages
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; annotated edition edition (May 1973)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393094154
- ISBN-13: 978-0393094152
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.2 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 862 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,454,417 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Included are Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a Tub, The Battel of theBooks, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, numerous essays and other prose pieces, and poems, among them severalthat are rarely reprinted. All of the texts are scrupulously edited andannotated.Backgrounds includes correspondence between Swift and members of hiscircle 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 forfurther study.
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You might want to choose a different anthology., July 20 2006
By MV - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Writings of Jonathan Swift (Paperback)
This anthology will serve those who don't care about the information that footnotes would provide, and those who already have that information in thier heads.
For students who want to give Swift a serious and informed reading, this edition is not ideal. Footnotes are few, and there's little editorial help in navigating the complex historical, political, and religious issues relevant to the text. Without an understanding of those issues the many of the works included are largely unintelligable and therefore a lot less interesting. For the price of a Norton, one expects a bit more padding to come with the text.
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A very thorough collection, Sep 12 2007
By Daniel Gunter - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Writings of Jonathan Swift (Paperback)
In contrast with the principal competing collection of Swift's work (i.e., the Oxford Classics collection), the Norton Critical Edition contains all of "Gulliver's Travels," "A Tale of a Tub" (my favorite of Swift's works), and "The Battle of the Books," along with a solid selection of other writings in prose and poetry. Given the breadth of the selection, it is not surprising that this edition does not have an extensive critical apparatus. But it does have enough background material and footnotes to make the texts generally useful to the modern reader, and other materials are readily available. This may be more of a "reader's edition" than a truly "critical edition," but it is still a valuable edition.
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