The De Coverley Papers, From 'The Spectator'
The De Coverley Papers, From 'The Spectator'

Author: Joseph Addison

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-21

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13:

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This witty and brilliant work groups together the essays from The Spectator about the character of Sir Roger de Coverley, who was a key figure in English Literature. Sir Roger de Coverley, a fictional character created by Joseph Addison, was a Worcestershire baronet and was meant to portray a typical landed country gentleman. Moreover, he was a member of the fictitious Spectator Club, and the de Coverley writings contained delightful vignettes of early 18th-century English life that were "The Spectator's" best feature.

Coverley Papers from the Spectator
Coverley Papers from the Spectator

Author: Joseph Addison

Publisher:

Published: 1897

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13:

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Papers originally published in the Spectator written by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, describing the life of the fictitious character Sir Roger de Coverley.

The Oxford Book of Essays
The Oxford Book of Essays

Author: John Gross

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 0199556555

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The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch--though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in The Oxford Book of Essays. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to appear for many years, it includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favorites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particularly welcome feature is the amount of space allotted to American essayists, from Benjamin Franklin to John Updike and beyond. This is an anthology that opens with wise words about the nature of truth, and closes with a consideration of the novels of Judith Krantz. Some of the other topics discussed in its pages are anger, pleasure, Gandhi, Beau Brummell, wasps, party-going, gangsters, plumbers, Beethoven, potato crisps, the importance of being the right size, and the demolition of Westminster Abbey. It contains some of the most eloquent writing in English, and some of the most entertaining.