Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735) is a work of fiction by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. Swift's masterpiece, it is his most celebrated work and one of the indisputable classics of the English language.

Current Editions

A listing of all editions would be impractical. Any modern edition is suitably footnoted and detailed to allow specific points of the satire to be appreciated. One shortfall is that no convenient modern edition of the 1726 text is available for study. An edition claiming to be the 1726 text was published by Oxford University Press but inspection revealed this to include all the changes made by Faulkner for the 1735 text and the 1899 addition. The edition is no longer in print. The Norton Critical Edition (ISBN 0393957241) is very reasonably priced and includes some excellent critical overviews and contemporary documents.

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