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 Travels of Lao Can characters and events illustrate a "complex conservatism" that concludes that technology instead of social change is the answer to the problems experienced by China. Cordell D. K. Yee's review of "The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century", however, argues that "it is doubtful that all episodes conform" to the allegory concept. Robert E. Hegel, in a review of "The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century", argues that Holoch's interpretation is persuasive and "makes a substantial contribution to the studies of the novel". The Travels of Lao Can The Travels of Lao Can (, or "The Travels