Length4h 20m
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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 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)
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Publish dateNov 28, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS
2A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE FOUGHT LAST FRIDAY BETWEEN THE ANCIENT AND THE MODERN BOOKS IN SAINT JAMES’S LIBRARY.
3THE EPISODE OF BENTLEY AND WOTTON.
4A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK.
5PREDICTIONS FOR THE YEAR 1708.
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6THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE FIRST OF MR. BICKERSTAFF’S PREDICTIONS; BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF MR. PARTRIDGE THE ALMANACK-MAKER, UPON THE 29TH INSTANT.
7BAUCIS AND PHILEMON.
8THE LOGICIANS REFUTED.
9THE PUPPET SHOW.
10CADENUS AND VANESSA.
11STELLA’S BIRTHDAY, 1718.
12STELLA’S BIRTHDAY, 1720.
13STELLA’S BIRTHDAY.
14STELLA’S BIRTHDAY, 1724.
15STELLA’S BIRTHDAY, MARCH 13, 1726.
16TO STELLA,
17THE FIRST HE WROTE OCT. 17, 1727.
18THE SECOND PRAYER WAS WRITTEN NOV. 6, 1727.
19THE BEASTS’ CONFESSION (1732).
20AN ARGUMENT TO PROVE THAT THE ABOLISHING OF CHRISTIANITY IN ENGLAND MAY, AS THINGS NOW STAND, BE ATTENDED WITH SOME INCONVENIENCES, AND PERHAPS NOT PRODUCE THOSE MANY GOOD EFFECTS PROPOSED THEREBY.
21HINTS TOWARDS AN ESSAY ON CONVERSATION.
22THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.
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