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Jonathan Swift, detail of an oil painting by Charles Jervas, c. 1718; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
A Tale of a Tub, a major prose satire by the Anglo-Irish author and clergyman Jonathan Swift, was published anonymously in 1704. The work was later expanded in 1710.12