Gulliver's Travels: A Norton Critical Edition

Gulliver's Travels: A Norton Critical Edition by Swift, Jonathan. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780393957242.

As featured on PBS’s The Great American Read This new edition of Swifts satiric classic is based on the 1726 text―the edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative. It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. "Contexts" collects materials that influenced Swifts writing of the novel, as well as documents that suggest its initial reception, including Swifts correspondence, Alexander Popes poems on Gullivers Travels, and relevant passages from Gargantua and Pantagruel. "Criticism" includes fourteen assessments of Gullivers 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.