Gulliver's Travels

Macmillan Children's Books

A brilliant collection of stories based on the heroes and villains of Norse Mythology, hand-picked and collected together in this gorgeous gift treasury.Delve into the world of gods, giants and monsters, as you sit atop Air Throne and survey the kingdom of Asgard. With magnificent colour and line-work illustrations from artists such as Charles Brock, Arthur Rackham and Helen St...

Carroll, Lewis

Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll's delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky.These exquisite compact hardbacks ar...

Dickens, Charles

A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart'. This attitude is soon challenged when th...

Hodgson Burnett, Frances

Frances Burnett Hodgson's novel The Secret Garden is both intriguing and uplifting. It is regarded as one of the best children's books written in the twentieth century. Mary Lennox, a sickly ten year old girl, adrift in the world after both her mother and father die is sent to Yorkshire to live with an uncle whom she has never met, at his isolated house, Misselthwaite Manor. In...

Carroll, Lewis

Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll's delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky. ...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Feeling alone and abandoned by everyone, a young man and self-confessed dreamer decides to take to the streets of St Petersburg during one of its long summer nights. As he roams around the empty city, he chances on a weeping girl, whom he approaches and rescues from the unwanted attentions of an importunate gentleman. The two agree to meet again the following night on the same ...

Jonathan Swift

El poeta, novelista y crítico irlandés Jonathan Swift (Dublín 1667-1745) es uno de los escritores clave de la literatura universal. Ordenado sacerdote protestante, participó activamente en la vida política, religiosa y cultural de su tiempo, tanto que su ferviente y polémica defensa de la causa irlandesa frente a Inglaterra prácticamente lo convirtió en héroe nacional. Inscrito...

Jonathan Swift

Siglo XVIII. El cirujano y navegante Lemuel Gulliver naufraga en una isla perdida; ahí encuentra un país de pequeños hombres y mujeres, los liliputenses, que no por pequeños son menos engreídos y vanidosos. Luego, en sucesivos viajes, el capitán Gulliver encuentra personajes de todo tipo, pero siempre fantásticos. Aunque Viajes de Gulliver (1726) es una obra considerada un clás...

Jonathan Swift

Escrito en 1729, este magnífico texto satírico comienza así: «Para evitar que los hijos de los pobres de Irlanda sean una carga para sus padres o su país y para que se conviertan en algo de provecho para el pueblo».Sin desvelar su propuesta, podemos decir que Swift hace todo lo posible para apoyar sus argumentos, incluyendo cálculos que muestran los beneficios financieros que d...

Jonathan Swift

Si bien asociada tradicionalmente al ámbito de la literatura juvenil por si tono y esquema narrativo, propio de los libros de viajes salpicados de aventuras, LOS VIAJES DE GUILLIVER es también una pieza maestra de la literatura satírica que conoció su edad de oro a fines del siglo XVII y gran parte del siglo XVIII. La obra abandona desde las primeras páginas las exigencias estr...

Jonathan Swift

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadPart of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to...

Jonathan Swift