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Addison and Steele: Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator

by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele · 1970

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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.

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adult
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long · 452 pages

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