A Tale Of A Tub The Battle Of The Books And Other Satires

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334546341
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (463 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Tale of a Tub written by Jonathan Swift and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Tale of a Tub: The Battle of the Books and Other Satires Though in 1699 the outside world was ignorant of his existence, Swift was known to the wide circle of Temple's acquaintance as a man of great promise, and, to a select few, not only of promise but of performance. He had already eshed his pen: he had written verses - though these called forth Dryden's oft - quoted remark, Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet, a prophecy soon to be falsified; and he had prepared Temple's letters and memoirs for publication. But this work counts as nothing when it is remembered that he had composed The Battle of the Books and The Tale of a Tub, which, written in 1697 and circulated in manuscript, did not receive the honour of publication until seven years after their inception. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."