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.

Selections from The Spectator and The Tatler

Literature & Fiction

Addison, Joseph

Steele, Richard

History & Criticism

Penguin Classics

Essays by Addison and Steele taken from the two periodicals they edited probe all aspects of eighteenth-century English politics, lifestyles, manners, social customs, and culture

Selections from The Tatler and The Spectator (Penguin Classics)

United States

A scholarly edition of works by Sir Richard Steele. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

The Plays

Dramas & Plays

Oxford University Press

A scholarly edition of a complete collation of the original sheets of The Spectator. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

The Spectator

British & Irish

Clarendon Press

A scholarly edition of a complete collation of the original sheets of The Spectator. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Originally published in 1965 and now reissued, this masterly edition of The Spectator was the first to provide an authoritative text, based on a complete collation of the original sheets, and the first to establish the authorship of the contributions to the journal. An extensive introduction and commentary throw new light on problems of publication and enable the reader to enjoy these essays against the background of their own times. A full analytic index is included.

This volume offers a selection of essays from The Tatler and The Spectator (1709-1714). The accompanying texts include excerpts from other periodicals such as The Guardian, The London Spy, and The Female Tatler; advertisements; and selections by Defoe, Ward, Flecknoe, Gay, Mandville, Pope, and Swift. A general introduction providing historical and cultural background, a chronolgy of Addison's and Steele's lives and times, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, headnotes, extensive annotations, a selected bibliography, and illustrations make this volume a unique scholarly edition of the periodical papers that helped define eighteenth-century culture and standards.

The Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator (Bedford Cultural Editions)

History

Europe

Bedford/St.Martin's

Days With Sir Roger De Coverly

Budgell, Eustace

Biographies & Memoirs

Franklin Classics

The Religious Tradesman: Or, Plain and Serious Hints of Advice for the Tradesman's Prudent and Pious Conduct; From His Entrance Into Business, to His Leaving It Off

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Selections from The Spectator and The Tatler

Selections from The Tatler and The Spectator (Penguin Classics)

The Plays

The Spectator

The Spectator

The Spectator

The Spectator

The Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator (Bedford Cultural Editions)

Days With Sir Roger De Coverly

The Religious Tradesman: Or, Plain and Serious Hints of Advice for the Tradesman's Prudent and Pious Conduct; From His Entrance Into Business, to His Leaving It Off