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Gulliver's travels

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
Imprint: Broadview Press Ltd
Publication Date: 1/06/2012
Place of Publication: Canada

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Historical materials, annotation, and a new introduction make this iconic but challenging text accessible to students.

"This new edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels provides both first-time and return readers with a well-constructed framework within which to place a familiar work. Allan Ingram's engaging introduction deftly combines a summary of contemporary controversies over politics, religion, learning, science, and Ireland, with a summary of Swift's life and a history of the composition, publication, and critical reception of the Travels. The footnotes to the text anticipate the kinds of knowledge a twenty-first-century reader might lack: the outmoded usage of a single word or the identity of an individual, as well as references to broader issues and ideas. Ingram observes that Swift 'asks the kinds of questions of his readers to which we have few answers.' His edition will enable readers to carry on the debate about those questions."--Melinda Alliker Rabb, Brown University

Title: Gulliver's travels
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Contributors: By (author) Jonathan Swift ; Edited by Allan Ingram

ISBN 13: 9781551119793
ISBN 10: 155111979X

Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
Imprint: Broadview Press Ltd
Publication Date: 1/06/2012
Place of Publication: Peterborough, Canada
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BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification: 823.5 (DC21)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 454
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Thickness: 22mm
Weight: 491g