Gulliver's Travels The first edition was released in two volumes on 28 October 1726, priced at 8"s". "6"d." Motte published "Gulliver's Travels" anonymously, and as was often the way with fashionable works, several follow-ups ("Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput"), parodies ("Two Lilliputian Odes, The first on the Famous Engine With Which Captain Gulliver extinguish'd the Palace Fire...") and "keys" ("Gulliver Decipher'd" and "Lemuel Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World Compendiously Methodiz'd", the second by Edmund Curll who had similarly written a "key" to Swift's "Tale of a Tub" in 1705) were swiftly produced. These were mostly printed anonymously
The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century of a previously overlooked work or of a new approach to one better known". After the editor, Donald Holoch is the second largest contributor to the work. His essay, "A Novel of Setting: "The Bureaucrats"", concerns Li Baojia's (Li Boyuan) "Officialdom Unmasked", and his "The Travels of Laocan: Allegorical Narrative" concerns "The Travels of Lao Can" by Liu E (Liu O). Next is Gilbert Chu Fu Fong, "Time in "Nine Murders": Western Influence and Domestic Tradition" about "Jiuming Qiyuan" by Wu Jianren, followed by Michael Egan, "Characterization in "Sea of Woe"" concerning "Henhai" ("Sea of Woe"), also by Wu Jianren.