Note: I actually read the now-defunct Oxford Authors Series version from 1984 (pictured at right), but the texts are identical….
Jonathan Swift lived from 1667-1745 and wrote a heck of a lot of dense, now-obscure work. I’m not going to lie to you and say that this wasn’t the slog that it surely was. Whether it was I who dragged this squat, ugly tome through the past seven months, or it me—is now, finally, moot. Cos it’s over, free at last, free at last!
If you ever took those period-survey English lit courses in uni, did you, too, dread those volumes, published by Norton and Riverside, that……
