Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift
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Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, by Jonathan Swift, London 1726 (19 x 12 cm), LO SWIFT 53.
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‘Travel into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships’, or ‘Gulliver’s Travels », as the book soon came to be known, was published on 28 October 1726. It was immediately successful and two further editions were published before the end of the year. As might be expected, the National Library of Ireland has copies of several editions. The pages digitised here are from a first-edition volume acquired with the Alfred Webb Collection which was donated in 1908.
While the book is essentially a sophisticated satire concerned with enlightenment and issues such as the relationship between subjects and rulers and intended ‘to vex the world rather than divert it’, it has hard parallel success as an imaginative work of fiction enjoyed by millions of readers of all ages.
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