GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
by JONATHAN SWIFT
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Links: Imaginary Journeys & Places
This page collects links to online sources about fictional and fanciful travel stories to which Gulliver's Travel was a distinguished addition. Swift was not the first to send his hero on a journey to imaginary places. Defoe's fictional Robinson Crusoe, loosely based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, was published in 1719. Earlier precedents include de Bergerac's Histoire Comique des Etats et Empires de la Lune et du Soleil (1657) and More's Utopia (1516). The tradition has continued with science fiction, one of the best examples of which is Lem's Ijon Tichy, a modern Gulliver if there ever was one.
Sources in print are listed in a separate Bibliography. To add or correct items to the page below, use the handy comment form.
Texts
- Plato
- Republic
- Thomas More, 1478-1535
- Utopia
- Rabelais, François, 1494-v.1553
- Gargantua
- Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Cyrano de Bergerac, 1619-1655.
- [Histoire comique des etats et empires du soleil.]
The comical history of the states and empires of the worlds of the moon and sun / written in French by Cyrano Bergerac ; and newly Englished by A. Lovell ... London : Printed for Henry Rhodes ..., 1687.
Description: 2 v. : ill.
- John Bunyan, 1628-88
- Pilgrim's Progress
- Daniel Defoe, 1661?-1731.
- The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe,
of York, mariner: who lived eight and twenty years, all alone
in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the
mouth of the great river Oroonoque; having been cast on shore
by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. With
an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by
pyrates. Written by himself. London; Printed for W. Taylor ...
1719-1720.
Lists and Guides
see also: list of general literature sources
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Compiled by Lee Jaffe
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updated: 15 April 2000