Gulliver’s Travels

A controversial satire of 18th-century British culture and politics, Gulliver’s Travels (1726) is one of Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift’s best-known novels. The tale of this eponymous traveler’s voyage to fantastical locales is famous for confounding generations of readers who have attempted to make sense of its jumble of genre elements, and Daniel Cook’s (University of Dundee) introduction offers a friendly and thorough guide to navigating it. The Norton Library edition presents the text of the 1735 edition, including original maps and illustrations, judiciously edited to preserve historical flavor while attending to the needs of modern readers.