Gulliver's Travels

Overview:

  • Title: Gulliver's Travels
  • Author: Jonathan Swift
  • Year: 2005
  • Publisher: Project Gutenberg
  • Price: $0.00
  • Binding: ebook
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Gulliver's Travels
  • Notes:
    Parts I and II only, edited for US schoolchildren! In the latest Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Jonathan Swift (Ebook #59708, released 2019-06-08) this edition is listed and linked as "Gulliver's Travel's, Illustrated"; Ebook #829 as "Gulliver's Travels". Neither ebook header, nor the Index, shows awareness that this text is a severe truncation and an abridgement. The header of Ebook #829 contains a banner notice that "an Illustrated Edition of this Title" is Ebook #17157.
    • Transcription of a 1900 D. C. Heath edition, "edited with introduction and notes by Thomas M. Balliet Superintendent of Schools, Springfield, Mass." The title page does not indicate any selection and it announces 38 illustrations and a map. The ebook contains Parts I and II only with (viewed in HTML format) about 60 illustrations and two maps, uncredited.
    • From the Preface by Thomas M. Balliet: "This edition is practically a reprint of the original (1726-27). The punctuation and capitalization have been modernized, some archaisms changed, and the paragraphs have been made more frequent. A few passages have been omitted which would offend modern ears and are unsuitable for children's reading, and some foot-notes have been added explaining obsolete words and obscure expressions."
    • Contents: Parts I and II only, or the voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag, in eight chapters each. Lists of Illustrations (2) do not support the title-page announcement of 38, neither as full-page nor as all illustrations.
    • Following the narrative, the book concludes with three short sections: • Note (on Swift) • Footnotes • Advertisements: Heath's Home and School Classics This publication is listed under heading "For Grades V and VI" (referring to US primary school children, commonly ages 10 to 12): "Fully illustrated. In two parts. Paper, each part, 15 cents; cloth, two parts bound in one, 30 cents."