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Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels; a sourcebook.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels; a sourcebook.

Ed. by Roger D. Lund.

Routledge

2006

197 pages

$26.95

Paperback

Routledge guides to literature

PR3724

Scholars may never know what Irish writer Swift was smoking when he wrote his 1726 satire of travel narratives, but Lund (English, Le Moyne U., US) offers them a cross-section of what he was reading at the time, letters he was writing, and early and modern criticism of the book to help them think about what he may have had in mind. He includes some key passages for ...

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