Gulliver's Travels

'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 David Womersley's extensive introduction is both magisterial and enlightening, and the Appendices, which include the unpublished Lindalino episode, will be a joy for confirmed Swiftians and new readers alike.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 'Three hundred years after its first, sensational publication, Jonathan Swift's satire seems to speak to us more urgently than ever, despite the well-meaning interference of many former editors. This remarkable new edition takes the reader back to Swift's original intentions, bringing Gulliver's Travels brilliantly to life in context as the classic of the eighteenth century that still deserves the closest attention in our own time. This exemplary work of scholarship is a revelation that restores this landmark of world literature in all its savage and inextinguishable majesty.' Robert McCrum 'This meticulous edition weaves together an illuminatingly edited text, a magisterial introduction and appendices including a fascinating, unpublished episode of resistance to authoritarian oppression, to give a fresh presentation of Gulliver's Travels as at once dangerous, highly personal to Swift, and socially purposeful as a work of satire. This anniversary edition fully reveals the breadth of Swift's extraordinary artistic and moral ambition.' Karen O'Brien, Vice-Chancellor of Durham University 'The perfect guide to the enthralling, bewildering, hilarious experience of reading Swift's satirical masterpiece.' Tom Keymer, author of Jane Austen: A Very Short Introduction