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The Battle of the Books 
by Jonathan Swift 


Read by Elijah Fisher. Total running time: 05:08:47. 


"The Battle of the Books" 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. It is 
one of his earliest well-known works. (Wikipedia) 


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Cover picture: “The Battle of the Pictures,” illustration from Hogarth Restored: The Whole 
Works of the celebrated William Hogarth, re-engraved by Thomas Cook, pub. 1812. Copyright 
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