The Battle of the Books

by Jonathan Swift

Overview

The Battle of the Books is the name of a short satire written by Jonathan Swift and published as part of the prolegomena to his A Tale of a Tub in 1704. It depicts a literal battle between books in the King's Library (housed in St. James's Palace at the time of the writing), as ideas and authors struggle for supremacy. Because of the satire, "The Battle of the Books" has become a term for the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. (Wikipedia)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783958643895
Publisher:	Otbebookpublishing
Publication date:	11/28/2017
Series:	Classics To Go
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	170
File size:	245 KB

About the Author

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms – such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, the Drapier – or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. (Wikipedia)

Editorial Reviews

"From Swift we absorb everything we can get: his big heart, his bitter, bloody humour, his lonesome brilliance balance out all the quirks of his eccentricity."  —Hermann Hesse

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