A Tale of a Tub
Robert Hendrickson notes in his book "British Literary Anecdotes" that "Swift was always partial to his strikingly original "The Tale of a Tub" (1704). On reading the work again in later years, he exclaimed 'Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book!'"
The Glass of Water
The Glass of Water: or, Effects and Causes (French: "Le verre d’eau ou Les effets et les causes") is an 1840 five-act stage comedy by the French writer Eugène Scribe. It is set at the court of Queen Anne of Great Britain during the early 18th century. It premiered at the Théâtre-Français in Paris on 17 November 1840. It has been translated into several languages, including into German in 1841 by Alexander Cosmar.