FTP name this novel by Jonathan Swift.
In the publisher's note to this book he informs the reader that the author moved from Redriff to a house near Newark to avoid his fans, and the title page originally displayed a portrait of that author with the caption "Splendide Mendax." A group of characters in this book worry that the Earth will collide with a comet due to return in 31 years and continually discuss the sun's health.  A notable controversy presented in this work concerns which end of an egg one should use to crack it, the two sides being referred to as "tram-" and "slam-ecksan."  In another part a box is made for the narrator at the behest of Glumdalclitch that is eventually carried out to sea by a bird, which allows him to escape Brobdignag.  The narrator also visits the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos on his titular journeys.  FTP name this novel by Jonathan Swift.
In the publisher's note to this book he informs the reader that the author moved from Redriff to a house near Newark to avoid his fans, and the title page originally displayed a portrait of that author with the caption "Splendide Mendax."
Gulliver's Travels