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Isaac Bickerstaff
Paperback
PhilosophyHumorLetters & Essays
ISBN13: 9781761832192
Publisher: Living Book Press
Published: Jan 1 2026
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
From the bustling coffeehouses of eighteenth-century London to the quiet corners where character is tested and shaped, these classic essays invite readers into the world of Isaac Bickerstaff-Richard Steele's wise, good-humoured observer of everyday life.
Told with warmth, wit, and moral clarity, the papers gathered here reveal Steele's purpose in creating the Tatler: to offer wholesome pleasure while gently correcting the follies of his age. Alongside Addison, he portrays courtship, family life, vanity, honour, friendship, and grief with a tenderness that ennobles rather than mocks. Whether describing a happy marriage, exposing fashionable vices, or defending the dignity of home, Bickerstaff speaks with a voice at once playful and profoundly humane.
Readers will find here not only glimpses of a bygone London, but reflections that illuminate enduring truths about virtue, conduct, and the shaping of character-making this volume as heartening today as when it first appeared.
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