Jonathan Swift responded with an attack on the Irish judiciary almost unparalleled in its ferocity, his principal target being the "vile and profligate villain" William Whitshed, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Also during these years, he began writing his masterpiece, "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships", better known as "Gulliver's Travels". Much of the material reflects his political experiences of the preceding decade. For instance, the episode in which the giant Gulliver puts out the Lilliputian palace fire by urinating on it can be
The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century of a previously overlooked work or of a new approach to one better known". After the editor, Donald Holoch is the second largest contributor to the work. His essay, "A Novel of Setting: "The Bureaucrats"", concerns Li Baojia's (Li Boyuan) "Officialdom Unmasked", and his "The Travels of Laocan: Allegorical Narrative" concerns "The Travels of Lao Can" by Liu E (Liu O). Next is Gilbert Chu Fu Fong, "Time in "Nine Murders": Western Influence and Domestic Tradition" about "Jiuming Qiyuan" by Wu Jianren, followed by Michael Egan, "Characterization in "Sea of Woe"" concerning "Henhai" ("Sea of Woe"), also by Wu Jianren.