The satiric voyages to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, Japan, and the Country of the Houyhnhnms. According to Wikipedia: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) was an Anglo-Irish cleric, Dean of St. Patricks, Dublin, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like Gullivers Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapiers Letters, The Battle of the Books, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language...