title: Gulliver's Travels: Ignatius Critical Editions
author:  Jonathan Swift 
description: Dutton kearney teaches literature and theology, and courses on epic, rhetoric, and the eighteenth century at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tennessee.<br />Joseph Pearce is Writer in Residence and Associate Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University in Florida. He is the co-editor of the Saint Austin Review and the author of books on Shakespears, Wilde, Chesterton, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and others.
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  Jonathan Swift
  
  
  
  
  
  GULLIVER’S TRAVELS  
  
  
  into Several Remote Nations  
  
  
  of the World
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Letter from Captain Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it,
  that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very
  loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young
  gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as
  my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called “A Voyage round the
  World.” But I do not remember I gave you power to consent that any thing
  should be omitted, and much less that any thing should be inserted; therefore,
  as to the latter, I do here renounce every thing of that kind; particularly a
  paragraph about her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memory;
  although I did reverence and esteem her more than any of human species. But
  you, or your interpolator, ought to h