Presented as a manuscript rescued from a stationer’s waste paper, this satire follows a newly dead spirit by coach to the gate of Elysium, where Minos judges the arrivals with irreverent common sense. Inside, the narrator meets the famous dead and listens as Julian the Apostate recounts his many reincarnations as slave, king, monk, fool and soldier.
Fielding in the vein of Lucian, mocking vanity and hypocrisy a few years before Tom Jones. Download the free EPUB.