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Paperback • 2017 • English • 1. edition
Part of the series Quirky classics
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Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the "Ancients", who argued that all essential knowledge was to be found in classical texts, and the "Moderns", who claimed that contemporary learning superseded the old sources, The Battle of the Books shows Swift at his wittiest and most trenchant. In this early satire, various books in St James's Library take on a life of their own and come into conflict with one another, in a pastiche of the ...Show more
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ISBN
9781847496799
Publisher
Alma Classics
Published year
2017
Language
English
Edition
1
Original title
The battle of the books
Format
Paperback
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