A Tale of A Tub (1704)

I knew from the first instalment from Daily Lit that this was not going to be easy. What I did not know was whether it was going to be worth it, because it’s not a work that I had ever heard of. Swift wrote it in 1697, and his sentence structure is challenging to say the least. Still there were only 42 instalments, and they’re short, so I decided to press on if for no other reason than to stretch the brain…
Instalment 2 turned out to be funny, and made me wonder whether or not we bloggers might not take heed of the writers whose prefaces Swift satirically quotes...
Read the rest at http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/a-tale-of-a-tub-by-jonathan-swift/ ( )

A satire within a satire, this is book that would most likely bloom within the context of a class discussion. While a sufficient amount of the satire translated across the centuries, I'm sure that some knowledge of events taking place during the writing of this tale would have revealed more depth to the text than I was aware of. ( )