A Tale of a Tub

by

Jonathan Swift

eBooks@Adelaide
2004

Table of Contents

ADVERT

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SOMERS.

THE BOOKSELLER TO THE READER

THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE POSTERITY

THE PREFACE.

SECTION I.—THE INTRODUCTION.

SECTION II.

SECTION III.—A DIGRESSION CONCERNING CRITICS.

SECTION IV.—A TALE OF A TUB.

SECTION V.—A DIGRESSION IN THE MODERN KIND.

SECTION VI.—A TALE OF A TUB.

SECTION VII.—A DIGRESSION IN PRAISE OF DIGRESSIONS.

SECTION VIII.—A TALE OF A TUB.

SECTION IX.—A DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE ORIGINAL, THE USE, AND IMPROVEMENT OF MADNESS IN A COMMONWEALTH.

SECTION X.—A FARTHER DIGRESSION.

SECTION XI.—A TALE OF A TUB.

THE CONCLUSION.

THE HISTORY OF MARTIN.

A DIGRESSION ON THE NATURE, USEFULNESS, AND NECESSITY OF WARS AND QUARRELS.

THE HISTORY OF MARTIN—Continued.

A PROJECT FOR THE UNIVERSAL BENEFIT OF MANKIND.

FOOTNOTES

Rendered into HTML on Saturday January 4 16:20:03 CST 2003, by Steve Thomas for The University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection.

From the 1889 George Routledge and Sons “Tale of a Tub and Other Works” edition.

For offline reading, the complete set of pages is available for download from http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/s97t/s97t.zip