Tomorrow we publish Book 12 in our Great Children's Books series, Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. When this book was first published in 1626, no one, certainly not Jonathan Swift, could have ...

Ian Higgins works for the Australian National University. In our series, Guide to the classics, experts explain key works of literature. Pick up Gulliver’s Travels expecting a children’s book or a ...

Happy 350th birthday, Jonathan Swift. Widely recognised as the leading satirist in the history of the English language, Swift found his way into the world 350 years ago on November 30, 1667.

This time last year, in March 2022, the bookcases that had been covering the old fireplace in Marsh’s Library for 40 years were removed. We knew about the fireplace – in a magazine from the 1820s it ...

Bode, Carl (ed.): The New Mencken Letters (New York: The Dial Press, 1977). Case, Arthur E.: ‘The Text of Gulliver’s Travels’, in Arthur E. Case: Four Essays on ...

Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” was published nearly 300 years ago, and it’s apparently never gone out of print since. As for Jack Black’s take on “Gulliver’s Travels,” well, it’s doubtful it ...

Gulliver's Travels, a 3-D film adaptation of Jonathan Swift's 18th-century satire, opens in theatres tomorrow. The movie may reignite interest in the 300-year-old novel, but those who pick up the book ...

Olga Taranova from Marsh's Library writes about a fascinating discovery in the first public library in Ireland, how the 300-year-old works of one library trustee continue to offer comfort to a new ...