The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers
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In 1708 Jonathan Swift, writing as Isaac Bickerstaff, announced the coming year's events and foretold the death of the almanac maker John Partridge. The papers follow the joke: Bickerstaff's Predictions for the Year 1708, an account of the first prediction coming true, an elegy and an epitaph for Partridge, Partridge's reply, and A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff. Bickerstaff poses as a defender of astrology out to expose the almanac trade's nonsense. Items credited to John Arbuthnot and Alexander Pope are included.
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Book facts
- Author
- Jonathan Swift
- Reading time
- About 1 hour
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Satire
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online