El capitan Lemuel Gulliver que es llevado por el mar a mundos fantasticos en donde: es un gigante entre enanos, un enano entre gigantes y un ser humano avergonzado de su condicion en una tierra poblada por caballos sabios que son mas humanos que los propios hombres y desconfian, con razon, de estos. La obra se considera un clasico de la literatura universal y ha inspirado numerosas adaptaciones y versiones. El libro se volvio famoso tan pronto como fue publicado"

The first fully annotated, contextualised, and textually authoritative edition of Swift's Irish prose writings from 1726 to 1738.

Swift's masterful satire is as entertaining today as it was when first published in 1726. Written with great wit and invention, Gulliver's Travels has captivated readers for nearly three centuries.

This edition presents Jonathan Swift's most important Irish writings in both prose and verse, together with an introduction, head notes and annotations that shed new light on the full context and significance of each piece. Familiar works such as "Gulliver's Travels" and "A Tale of a Tub" acquire new and deeper meanings when considered within the Irish frameworks presented in the edition. Differing in noteworthy ways from the more traditional, canonical, Anglocentric picture conveyed by other published volumes, the Swift that emerges from these pages is a brilliant polemicist, popular...