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Ep 594 - Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift

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The Editing of Gulliver

The Penguin edition uses the 1726 version with Swift and Ford's edits intermingled as well as some other stuff from manuscripts that appeared to derive from Swift's intentions. Demarius: On the one hand, you have this guy who made a bunch of edits all by himself without asking. And on the otherhand, you have the author of the book who rewrote those parts the way that he wanted it.

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