Memoirs of the Twentieth Century.

About Memoirs of the Twentieth Century

Memoirs of the Twentieth Century is an early work of speculative fiction by Irish writer Samuel Madden. This 1733 epistolary novel takes the form of a series of diplomatic letters written in 1997 and 1998. The work is a satire, perhaps modeled after Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726). Madden was an Anglican clergyman, and the book is focused on the dangers of Catholicism and Jesuits, depicting a future where they dominate.