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Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language,[1] and is less well known for his poetry. Swift originally published all of his works under pseudonyms – such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, MB Drapier – or anonymously. He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. "A Tale of a Tub" was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody which is divided into sections of "digression" and a "tale" of three brothers, each representing one of the main branches of western Christianity. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length4 hrs 52 mins
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Publish dateJan 31, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A TALE OF A TUB
2SECTION I. - THE INTRODUCTION.
3SECTION II.
4SECTION III. - A DIGRESSION CONCERNING CRITICS.
5SECTION IV. - A TALE OF A TUB.
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6SECTION V. - A DIGRESSION IN THE MODERN KIND.
7SECTION VI. - A TALE OF A TUB.
8SECTION VII. - A DIGRESSION IN PRAISE OF DIGRESSIONS.
9SECTION VIII. - A TALE OF A TUB.
10SECTION IX. - A DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE ORIGINAL, THE USE, AND IMPROVEMENT OF MADNESS IN A COMMONWEALTH.
11SECTION X. - A FARTHER DIGRESSION.
12SECTION XI. - A TALE OF A TUB.
13THE CONCLUSION.
14THE HISTORY OF MARTIN.
15A DIGRESSION ON THE NATURE, USEFULNESS, AND NECESSITY OF WARS AND QUARRELS.
16A PROJECT FOR THE UNIVERSAL BENEFIT OF MANKIND.
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