Los viajes de Gulliver I

by Jonathan Swift, Milo Winter (Ilustrador)

Historias Maravillosas #45

El Lemuel Gulliver, médico cirujano y ahora naufrago, llegará milagrosamente a una isla habitada por pigmeos del tamaño de un meñique (Lilitput) y posteriormente a otra isla habitada por gigantes, donde el del tamaño de un meñique es él (Bromdingnag). Este primer tomo recopila los dos primeros viajes maravillosos de Gulliver, una sátira política y maravillosa que nos transportará a la fantasía más alocada y a una guerra tan estúpida que no podremos más que reír.

218 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1735

About the author

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier—or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".

Reviews

[Luigi Galicia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pensé que sería un libro para niños, y terminó siendo una de las mejores sátiras políticas que he leído usando la fantasía

[Silvi · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.8 Demasiada política y descripción innecesaria.