Gulliver's Travels is a satire by Jonathan Swift first published in the 18th century.
Bibliographic notesGulliver's Travels was first published in 1726 by Benjamin Motte under the title "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World", credited to "Lemuel Gulliver" with an also-fictitious "Richard Sympson" as the editor, and not credited to Swift. Motte's edition made changes from Swift's original manuscript (which is now lost) to avoid anticipated political problems. Various corrected editions, as well as anonymous followups and imitations not by Swift, were published in the immediately following years. In 1735, George Faulkner published a more definitive edition of Gulliver's Travels as part of a larger set of Swift's works. Faulkner's edition is the primary basis of most later editions. Many more recent editions, especially those intended for younger readers, also cut, simplify, or "clean up" certain passages or language.
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Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, D. D.: The Text of the First Edition Edited, With an Introduction, Bibliography and Notes (London: First Edition Club, 1926), by Jonathan Swift, ed. by Harold Herbert Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts (2 volumes: London: Printed for B. Motte, 1726), by Jonathan Swift, ed. by Benjamin Motte
- Volume III of the Author's Works, Containing Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World (Dublin: G. Faulkner, 1735), by Jonathan Swift (multiple formats at Google)
These editions often alter or adapt Swift's original text.
- Gulliver's Travels: I. A voyage to Lilliput. II. A voyage to Brobdingnag; Edited for Schools, With Notes and a Sketch of the Author's Life (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1902), by Jonathan Swift (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of The World (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1913), by Jonathan Swift, contrib. by William Dean Howells, illust. by Louis Rhead (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Gullivers Resor i Obekanta Länder (in Swedish, illustrated; Stockholm: F. C. Askerberg, ca. 1882), by Jonathan Swift (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg text)
- Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver (London: Printed for C. Cooke, ca. 1797), by Jonathan Swift (page images at HathiTrust)
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