Definitive and revised edition by the author of one of the best novels in Spanish of the twentieth century. Prepared by the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language.

In 1962, La ciudad y los perros received the Premio Biblioteca Breve and a few months later it was published after circumventing Franco's censorship. Thus began the literary journey of this work considered one of the best novels in Spanish of the twentieth century. The Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language pay tribute to the academic and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa with a new edition of the book that marked the beginning of his literary career.

The City and the Dogs, translated into more than thirty languages, is set in the Leoncio Prado Military College. The protagonists of the novel, a group of young people who are "educated" in an implacable and violent military discipline, learn to survive in an environment in which racial prejudices and differences between social and economic classes are deeply rooted; where everyone shows themselves as they are not in reality and the transgression of the established norms seems to be the only way out.

The edition is completed with the critical studies of Marco Martos, José Miguel Oviedo, Víctor García de la Concha, Darío Villanueva, Javier Cercas, Carlos Garayar, John King and Efraín Kristal.