The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces Annotated by Jonathan Swift

The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces Annotated

Jonathan Swift

174 pages first pub 1704 (editions)

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"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...

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