Swift, Jonathan.
Gulliver's Travels.
Illustrations by Jean Grandville.
Foreword by D. S. Mirsky.
Series: Library of English Classics.
Moscow-Leningrad: Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., 1935.
XXXV, 362 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
One of 5,100 copies.
This 1935 Moscow-Leningrad edition is a remarkable Soviet publication of Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, printed entirely in English. It was issued by the Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., an imprint specifically created to serve the growing community of foreign engineers and specialists involved in the Soviet industrialization drive. The volume is enriched by the iconic 19th-century illustrations by French artist Jean Grandville and features a scholarly foreword by the eminent literary critic D. S. Mirsky. As part of the "Library of English Classics" series, this book represents a concerted effort to make Western literary canons available in their original language within the Soviet Union. It stands as a fascinating artifact of 1930s cultural policy, internationalism, and the complex intellectual landscape of the Stalin era, bridging English literary tradition, European art, and Soviet publishing.