Swift — Corpus & edition map
TL;DR: Local Anna’s Archive ZIPs live under /home/ari/dev/wget/swift; _extract/ holds 1828, 1856, 1906, 1910 Gulliver plus 1823 Select Works vol. I—use 1856 39015078565952 for a stable Mars passage anchor unless variants matter. Conclusion: OCR is for search and quotes, not critical-edition punctuation.
Corpus root: /home/ari/dev/wget/swift
See also: README.md in that folder (local filesystem; not a site URL).
What moved from Downloads
Five Anna’s Archive ZIPs were placed in /home/ari/dev/wget/swift/ and unpacked to _extract/. No other Swift titles were found under ~/Downloads at the time of the move.
Edition → extract directory
| Edition (from filename metadata) | Primary extract path | Page .txt count (approx.) |
| 1828 — Jones & Co., London | _extract/Gulliver_s_travels_into_several_remote_nations_of_the_world/39015078565861/ | ~504 |
| 1856 — Derby & Jackson, NY | _extract/Gulliver_s_travels_into_several_remote_nations_of_the_world/39015078565952/ or _extract/gulliver_1856_derby_jackson/39015078565952/ | ~442 |
| 1906 — Dutton | _extract/Gulliver_s_travels/39030038391340/ | ~310 |
| 1910 — Ward, Lock (coloured) | _extract/Gulliver_s_travels_by_Jonathan_Swift_With_coloured/39015078566661/ | ~344 |
| 1823 — Select Works vol. I, McLean | _extract/The_select_works_of_Jonathan_Swift_containing_the_whole_of/33433076096241/ | ~344 |
Using the OCR
- Files are named like
00000290.txt(page order). Hyphenation at line breaks is common; search for partial words if a grep misses. - The 1828 bundle is the largest and often includes footnotes, life of Swift, and critical notes — useful for “what contemporaries thought Gulliver was,” but it inflates word count versus plain Gulliver text.
- For a clean comparison of the Mars passage across editions, grep
two lesser starsorrevolve about Marsunder_extract/.
Works not in this corpus
The Select Works ZIP here is Volume I only (see index-swift-select-works-vol1-1823.md). Other Swift titles advertised for the full set (Gulliver in later volumes, Modest Proposal, Directions to Servants, etc.) are not present in the moved files until additional volumes are obtained.
Next steps (optional)
- Pull Project Gutenberg #829 (and related Swift IDs) into the same tree as a single
.txtfor line-stable citation. - Add vols. II–V of Select Works 1823 if they surface in Downloads.
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