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SWIFT: GULLIVER'S TRAVELS AND SELECTED WRITINGS IN PROSE & VERSE

by Jonathan Swift; John Hayward

Published by The Nonesuch Press. 1968

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. The Nonesuch SWIFT in the Compendious Series. Edited by John Hayward. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xviii and 868 pages including notes. Top edge red.

Spine lightly sunned. Top red edge is fading at gutter edge and is lightly foxed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned to spine and rear panel.

ISBN: 0370005171
Stock no. 1831192

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Contents

  • CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE:
  • INTRODUCTION:
  • NOTE ON THE TEXT:
  • PROSE
  • TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD:
  • Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput
  • Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag
  • Part III: A Voyage to Laputa &c
  • Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
  • SELECTIONS FROM A TALE OF A TUB:
  • The Dedication
  • The Preface
  • Digression concerning Criticks
  • Digression in the Modern Kind
  • Digression in Praise of Digressions
  • Digression. on Madness
  • The Author's Compliment to the Readers &c
  • SELECTIONS FROM THE CONDUCT OF THE ALLIES
  • AN ARGUMENT TO PROVE THAT THE ABOLISHING OF CHRISTIANITY MAY ... BE ATTENDED WITH SOME INCONVENIENCES
  • A LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN, LATELY ENTER'D INTO HOLY ORDERS
  • A LETTER OF ADVICE TO A YOUNG POET
  • A LETTER TO A VERY YOUNG LADY ON HER MARRIAGE
  • A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK
  • THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS
  • RESOLUTIONS WHEN I COME TO BE OLD
  • IRISH TRACTS
  • THE DRAPIER'S LETTERS
  • EXTRACT FROM A SHORT CHARACTER OF HIS EXCELLENCY THOMAS EARL OF WHARTON
  • A SHORT VIEW OF THE STATE OF IRELAND
  • A MODEST PROPOSAL & c.
  • AN EXAMINATION OF CERTAIN ABUSES
  • A SERIOUS AND USEFUL SCHEME TO MAKE AN HOSPITAL FOR INCURABLES
  • A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF GENTEEL AND INGENIOUS CONVERATION
  • SELECTIONS FROM DIRECTIONS TO SERVANTS
  • IN GENERAL
  • IN PARTICULAR TO:
  • The Butler
  • The Cook
  • The Footman
  • The Groom
  • The Chamber-Maid
  • The Waiting-Maid
  • The House-Maid
  • The Dairy-Maid
  • The Children's-Maid
  • The Laundress
  • The Governess
  • SELECTIONS FROM THE JOURNAL TO STELLA
  • A CHARACTER OF MRS JOHNSON (STELLA)
  • THREE PRAYERS FOR STELLA
  • POEMS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • NOTE ON THE TEXT OF THE POEMS
  • VERSES WROTE IN A LADY'S IVORY TABLE-BOOK
  • THE HUMBLE PETITION OF MRS FRANCES HARRIS
  • A DESCRIPTION OF THE MORNING
  • A DESCRIPTION OF A CITY SHOWER
  • CORINNA
  • IN SICKNESS
  • PHILLIS: OR THE PROGRESS OF LOVE
  • STELLA'S BIRTHDAY 1718
  • STELL'A BIRDAY 1720
  • CADENUS AND VANESSA
  • THE FURNITURE OF A WOMAN'S MIND
  • BETTY THE GRIZETTE
  • ON POETRY: A RAPSODY
  • ON THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT
  • VERSES ON THE DEATH OF DOCTOR SWIFT
  • SWIFT'S EPITAPH
  • TEXTUAL NOTES

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