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Title: Gulliver's Travels
into several remote nations of the world

Author: Jonathan Swift

Release Date: June 15, 2009 [eBook #829]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed from the 1892 George Bell and Sons edition by David Price,
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
INTO SEVERAL
REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD

BY JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D.,
DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S, DUBLIN.

[_First published in_ 1726-7.]

THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER.

[_As given in the original edition_.]

The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and
intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the
mother's side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the
concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a
small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in
Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in
good esteem among his neighbours.

Although Mr. Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire, where his father
dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to
confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at Banbury in that
county, several tombs and monuments of the Gullivers.

Before he quitted Redriff, he left the custody of the following papers in
my hands, with the liberty to dispose of them as I should think fit. I
have carefully perused them three times. The style is very plain and
simple; and the only fault I find is, that the author, after the manner
of travellers, is a little too circumstantial. There is an air of truth
apparent through the whole; and indeed the author was so distinguished
for his veracity, that it became a sort of proverb among his neighbours
at Redriff, when any one affirmed a thing, to say, it was as true as if
Mr. Gulliver had spoken it.

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