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A Tale of a Tub, EPUB eBook

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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 Encyclopaedia 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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