Author: SWIFT, JONATHAN; GREENBERG, ROBERT A.; PIPER, WILLIAM BOWMAN (EDITORS)
Title: The Writings of Jonathan Swift: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds, Criticism (a Norton Critical Edition)
Description: New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0393094154. Stated first edition. This work contains the complete and definitive texts of virtually all of Jonathan Swift's major works. Includes his Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of the Tub, The Battel of the Books and A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operations of the Spirit, among many others, as well as a generous selection of his poetry and other writings. Edited by Robert A. Greenberg and William B. Piper. With plentiful notes throughout providing explanations for archaic references. Also with over 100 pages offering literary criticism of Swift's work by notable authors and critics. With facsimiles of the original title page and frontis image from a 1735 edition of Gulliver's Travels. --- A softcover in stiff brown wraps. With an inked notation to facsimile title page, else a clean, bright, unmarked copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; x, xiv, 721 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: 0393094154 >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Poetry >>Writers, Writing & Literary Criticism
Title: The Writings of Jonathan Swift: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds, Criticism (a Norton Critical Edition)
Description: New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0393094154. Stated first edition. This work contains the complete and definitive texts of virtually all of Jonathan Swift's major works. Includes his Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of the Tub, The Battel of the Books and A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operations of the Spirit, among many others, as well as a generous selection of his poetry and other writings. Edited by Robert A. Greenberg and William B. Piper. With plentiful notes throughout providing explanations for archaic references. Also with over 100 pages offering literary criticism of Swift's work by notable authors and critics. With facsimiles of the original title page and frontis image from a 1735 edition of Gulliver's Travels. --- A softcover in stiff brown wraps. With an inked notation to facsimile title page, else a clean, bright, unmarked copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; x, xiv, 721 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: 0393094154 >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Poetry >>Writers, Writing & Literary Criticism
Price: US$ 14.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 85296
- Book number: 85296