Gulliver's Travels is one of the landmarks of world literature. Gulliver's adventures with the tiny but spirited Lilliputians, the giant inhabitants of Brobdingnag, the flying island of Laputa, and the rational horses of Houyhnmhnmland have become globally famous for their satirical wit and visionary creativity. Early editions credited Gulliver himself as the author, and many readers believed him to be a real person. Later commentators have variously described the work as proto-science fiction, as inspired children's literature and as a forerunner of the modern novel. The editor's introduction to this celebratory anniversary edition contextualises Gulliver's Travels in Swift's life and work as a whole while exploring its rich and remarkable afterlife. All the original illustrations and maps are included, as are the frontispiece portraits. Generous annotation explains textual details which might now seem obscure, and appendices contain additional documents and images to enhance contemporary understanding and enjoyment.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-05-14
Mått:151 x 220 x 33 mm
Vikt:628 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:414
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009553179

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David Womersley is Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford, is a Fellow of the British Academy, and was in 2018–19 a Fellow of the prestigious C. F. von Siemens Stiftung in Munich. He has published extensively on eighteenth-century literature and culture and is internationally celebrated for his expertise on Jonathan Swift and his writings. Professor Womersley's scholarly edition of Gulliver's Travels was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012, a major work which this accessible tercentenary edition now complements and augments.

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'The new Cambridge edition of Swift's masterpiece is a splendid venture. David Womersley's extensive introduction is both magisterial and enlightening, and the Appendices, which include the unpublished Lindalino episode, will be a joy for confirmed Swiftians and new readers alike. Chapeau!' John Banville

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Introduction; Gulliver's Travels; Appendices: 1. Commendatory verses; 2. Frontispiece portraits; 3. Annotations in Swift's Copy of Gulliver's Travels; 4. Bowdlerised Passages from the First and Second London Editions; 5. Passages from Swift's Correspondence Relating to Gulliver's Travels; 6. A Chronology of Swift's Life and Works; 7. A Chronology of Gulliver's Travels; 8. The Unpublished 'Lindalino' Episode.