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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Swift, Jonathan

Swift, Jonathan
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Gulliver's Travels: Introduction, Book I, Chapters 1 - 4

A Letter From Captain Gulliver To His Cousin Sympson

The reader should not make the mistake of skipping over this introductory
letter for it is the real beginning of the book. Swift, of course, has made it
seem merely a prefatory note (of the kind we are accustomed to ignore) but he
has done this to underscore the reader's conception of Gulliver, rather than
Swift, as the true author of the book.

The important thing to recognize in this letter is its chronological
relationship to the events of ...

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