Author:  Captain Samuel Brunt

Release Date:  July 4, 2005 [eBook #16202]

Language:  English

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A VOYAGE TO CACKLOGALLINIA

With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of that Country

by

CAPTAIN SAMUEL BRUNT

Reproduced from the Original Edition, 1727, with an Introduction by

MARJORIE NICOLSON

Published for
the facsimile text society
By Columbia University Press
New York:  MCMXL

INTRODUCTION

A Voyage to Cacklogallinia appeared in London, in 1727, from the pen of a pseudonymous “Captain Samuel Brunt.”  Posterity has continued to preserve the anonymity of the author, perhaps more jealously than he would have wished.  Whatever his real parentage, he must for the present be referred only to the literary family of which his progenitor “Captain Lemuel Gulliver” is the most distinguished member.  Like so many other works of that period, A Voyage to Cacklogallinia has sometimes been attributed to Swift; its similarities to the fourth book of Gulliver’s Travels are unmistakable.  Again, the work has sometimes been attributed to Defoe.  There is, however, no good reason to believe that either Defoe or Swift was concerned in its authorship, except in so far as both gave impetus to lesser writers in this form of composition.