Even Jonathan Swift's Publisher Was Afraid Of Gulliver's Travels, and Changed Parts Of It (Picture Credit – Amazon)
\n\n"I began last week to permit my wife to sit at dinner with me, at the farthest end of a long table." Lemuel Gulliver writes that sentence near the end of the book, and he offers it as a concession. He keeps his nose stopped with rue, lavender or tobacco leaves to blunt the smell of his own family, and he spends several hours a day in the stables, talking to his horses.
\n\n'Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World' was published in London by Benjamin Motte on 28 October 1726, three hundred years ago today, anonymously and in two volumes. Hardly anybody ever reaches the book that ends in that dining room.
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\n\nWhat survived instead is Lilliput. The first voyage, with its six-inch courtiers and their war over which end of an egg to crack, lends itself to picture books, and it has been abridged into them more or less continuously ever since. Brobdingnag, where Gulliver is the small one, usually makes it in as well. The…
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