Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator

By Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

Book Overview

Designed to be light in tone but heavy in influence, essays published in two 18th-century publications THE TATLER and THE SPECTATOR examined everything from conduct and morals to phiolosophy, politics, science, and literature. These selections from the two papers illuminate the lives and thoughts of the intelligentsia of 18th-century England and France.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140432981
• ISBN13: 9780140432985
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.8"