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 World is Round (novel) The World is Round (novel) The World is Round (1896) is the first novel by Australian writer Louise Mack. The novel follows the story of Jean Burnes, a young Sydney woman with dreams of becoming a novelist. Her manuscript is altered by her lover Musgrave and it goes on to great success. But Jean's fame is wounded when Musgrave claims the success for himself, denigrating her in the process. In "The Sunday Times" (Sydney) a reviewer believes that the author shows promise but the novel "is a well-written yet not deeply engrossing story of the love and literary aspirations of