When I started this project there were already several copies of Gulliver's Travels online. All were probably from a common source: simple text files, most featuring the entire work in a single file, with modern, American spelling, grammar, and punctuation, and riddled with typos. Since the heart of this site was the text itself, I set out to produce a good online edition. I don't pretend that this is a scholarly edition but I have endeavored to raise the bar at least a couple of inches.
Original ASCII version downloaded (with permission) from Jack Lynch's site:
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. London : Benj. Motte, 1726. (Teerink AA edition in collection of The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley)
Gulliver's Travels and Other Works by Jonathan Swift: exactly reprinted from the first edition; and edited with some account of Cyrano de Bergerac and of his voyages to the sun and moon by the late Henry Morley, LL.D.; with a note on the name 'Gulliver' by J.P. Gilson (of the British Museum. London : George Routledge and Sons ; New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., 1906.
and:
Gulliver's Travels : an Annotated Text with Critical Essays. edited by Robert A. Greenberg. A Norton Critical Edition. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1961.
Gulliver's Travels. Edited with an Introduction by Paul Turner. The World's Classics. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1986.
Note: For more information about editions of Gulliver's Travels and sources for the text, see section Text.
Gulliver Home Page
Comments to Lee Jaffe jaffe@scruznet.com updated: 28-May-98
