GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
by JONATHAN SWIFT

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This page provides pointers to Web sites useful for reading and study of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Sources in print are listed in a separate Bibliography. To add or correct items to the page below, use the handy comment form.

Longer Works

Swift, Jonathan
"Fragment of Autobiography: Anecdotes of the Family of Swift," The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. vol. I London: George Bell and Sons, 1897. 367-382

Johnson, Samuel
"Swift." The Lives of the English Poets: and a criticism on their works. Dublin, Whitestone, Williams, Colles, Wilson [etc. ] 1779-81.

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
"Swift." The English Humourists of The Eighteenth Century: A series of lectures, delivered in England, Scotland, and the United States of America. London : Smith, Elder & co., 1853.
series: The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray; In Twelve Volumes; Illustrated Kensington Edition. London : Smith, Elder & Co.; Philadelphia : Lippincott & Co., 1876. Vol. X p. 381-415.

H. L. Mencken, Introduction, Gulliver's Travels. New York : Knopf, 1925, v-vii.

Lecky, W.E.H.
"Biographical Introduction." The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Vol. I. London: George Bell and Sons, 1897. xiii-xci.
based upon an essay that originally appeared in Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, 1838-1903. The Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland. London : Saunders, Ottley, 1861.

Craik, Henry.
LIFE OF SWIFT.
Swift: Selections From His Works. volume I. Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1892. p. 1-36.

Famous Alumni Hertford College, Oxford
... and you thought your alumni association was persistent...

Briefer Entries

General Biographical Sources

Britannica.com - advanced search pinpoints Encyclopædia articles - good cross references
Biography.com A& E Network site - difficult to search
Biography Center - not much on 18th C. available so far

Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Trinity College, Dublin


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Compiled by Lee Jaffe
updated 13 December 2005
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