4umi Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels

  - Travels into several remote nations of the world

by Jonathan Swift.
First published in 1726. (This website follows the 1735 Faulkner edition.)

Contents

  1. Introductory letter
  2. To the reader
  3. A Voyage to Lilliput

    in eight chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  4. A Voyage to Brobdingnag

    in eight chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  5. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan

    in eleven chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  6. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms

    in twelve chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Gulliver's travels. Travels into several remote nations of the world. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships. London: Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726.

Heritage

A rare copy of the first edition is the most valuable item in the Swift collection of Leeds University Library. The book can be sponsored through the Adopt-a-book program.

The work was originally not illustrated, apart from Gulliver's portrait on the frontispiece and four maps of his destinations. Later editions have more often than not included scenes from the fantastical stories in all kinds of styles. J.G. Thomson made upwards of 300 wood-engravings in 1864. The series by Thomas Morten appeared in the same year. Peter Pindar made an "illustrated edition for the rising generation" in 1874. An edition with one hundred and eighty coloured and sixty plain drawings by V. Armand Poirson was published in 1886. Robert MacKenzie published an edition in 1890. Charles E. Brock made a hundred pictures in 1894. Albert E. Jackson illustrated a version in 1911, Milo Winter in 1912, John Hassall in 1915, Arthur Rackham in 1937, R.G. Mossa in 1938. The illustrations by Luis Quintanilla and René Bull date from the 1940's. Chris Riddell took his turn in 2004.

The first of many attempts at a movie was made in 1902 by Georges Méliès, Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants, but somehow the definitive Gulliver film has to yet be made, as gulliver.cc explains.

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 Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels Introductory letter To the reader A Voyage to Lilliput A Voyage to Brobdingnag A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms A Modest Proposal Three Sermons, Three Prayer