The World's Greatest Books, Vol. 20: Miscellaneous Literature, Index
‹
›
- Browse Category
We Begin at the EndLearn More - Choice Picks
- Top 100 Free Books
- Blog
- Recently Added
- Submit your eBook
By Arthur Mee
18 Mar, 2019
Recall the time when it was founded. It was in the days of Queen Anne, the Augustan age of the essay. There were no newspapers then, no magazines or reviews, no Parliamentary reports, nothing corresponding to the so-called "light literature" of later
... Read more
Recall the time when it was founded. It was in the days of Queen Anne, the Augustan age of the essay. There were no newspapers then, no magazines or reviews, no Parliamentary reports, nothing corresponding to the so-called "light literature" of later days. The only centres of society that existed were the court, with the aristocracy that revolved about it, and the clubs and coffee-houses, in which the commercial and professional classes met to discuss matters of general interest, to crack their jokes, and to exchange small talk about this, that and the other person, man or woman, who might happen to figure, publicly or privately, at the time. "The Spectator" was one of the first organs to give form and consistency to the opinion, the humour and the gossip engendered by this social contact. Less
- File size
- Print pages
- Publisher
- Language
- ISBN
- 582.155 KB
- 374
- Public Domain Books
- English
- 9781333217600
Author
Related Books
In Limpid Dream: Nostalgia and Zhang Dai's Reminiscences of the Ming Philip:
Red Fox The Story of his Adventurous Career in the Ringwaak Wilds and of his Final Triumph over the Enemies of his Kind Charles:
The Diamond Lens O'Brien:
Studies in Literature and History:
English Literature:
Allan Ramsay:
From Chaucer to Tennyson:
A Knight of the White Cross; A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes:
.jpg){kind=logo}
Etudes sur la Littérature Française au XIXe siècle Madame de Staël; Chateaubriand (French Edition):
Queens of the French Stage and Later Queens of the French Stage H.:
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806:
Arabic Authors - A Manual of Arabian History and Literature:
.jpg){kind=logo}
Young Folks' Library X1 of 20:
Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist:
Koks:
Hopes & Fears Vol.III Charlotte:
A Study Guide for August Wilson's The Piano Lesson Gale:
Histoire De La Prostitution Chez Tous Les Peuples Du Monde Depuis L'Antiquite La Plus reculee Jusqu'a Nos Jours tome III:
A Short History of French Literature:
Quicklet on Natural Experiments of History edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson:
Maggie: A Girl of the Street:
Operation:
Charlotte Yonge: Rereading Domestic Religious Fiction Tamara Wagner Editor:
The History of Napoleon Buonaparte:
Christopher and Columbus:
Join us and get access to all your favourite books
It’s free
