"Mistakes" in Gulliver's Travels?

External Since: Dec 29, 2007 Posts: 1

In a section of "Gulliver's Travels", Gulliver says there are mistakes
in the book put there by the printers of his manuscript, that he sent
the corrections to the publisher, but then says that he won't stand by
them and that the readers get to adjust the story. Comments on the
matter?

External Since: Sep 05, 2004 Posts: 197

richard stoney wrote:
> In a section of "Gulliver's Travels", Gulliver says there are mistakes
> in the book put there by the printers of his manuscript, that he sent
> the corrections to the publisher, but then says that he won't stand by
> them and that the readers get to adjust the story. Comments on the
> matter?

As you say, the correction is written by "Gulliver", not by Swift. It
only appeared for the first time in the second edition. I would
therefore very much like to see whether the second edition was printed
from the standing type of the first.
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John W. Kennedy
"You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is
about as perceptive as classing the works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W.
W. Jacobs together as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_."
-- C. S. Lewis. "An Experiment in Criticism"