- English
- catalog edition 2020
Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces Annotated
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, 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. It is one of his earliest well known works.
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the reading room
Keep the thread going.
One quiet exit, after the marks that matter.