THE ATHENAEUMA Tale of a TubJonathan Swift
Satire
A Tale of a Tub
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textSwift’s first great satire, published without his name in 1704, tells the history of the Church as the story of three brothers, Peter, Martin and Jack, and the coats their father left them. Between the chapters it runs off into digressions on critics, madness and modern learning. It was widely believed to have cost him a bishopric, because Queen Anne would not promote its author.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 3 hr 5 min
- Where to find it
- Lilliput
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #4737. In the public domain in the United States.