(4)A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books established his name as a satirist.
《桶的故事》和《书籍的战斗》奠定了斯威夫特作为一个讽刺家的地位。
The Battle of the Books
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The Battle of the Books
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.