Morton Devereux inhabits the glittering waste of fashionable London, where tailors, poets, dealers, and gossiping attendants crowd his rooms and every gesture becomes a performance of ease, wit, and indulgence. With his friend Tarleton, he moves through a world of coffeehouses, exchanges, salons, and street scenes, mocking pretension while revealing how thoroughly society has turned vanity, patronage, and amusement into a commerce of status. Their wanderings bring them into contact with Colley Cibber, an ex-sexton scandalized by a puppet show that draws worshippers from church, Lady Hasselton's flirtatious intrigues, and the literary chatter of Will's, where the Spectator and the identity of its author become objects of speculation. At Abigail Masham's salon, politics and wit mingle with the brilliance of St. John and the cool composure of the Abbé Montreuil, before a comic clash with watchmen turns public disorder into mock-heroic spectacle. Beneath the satire, the novel deepens into reflection on love, ambition, and the longing for an ideal companion, as St. John argues that custom destroys passion and reality defeats fantasy. Dr. Swift's blunt, brilliant entrance and irreverent supper conversation finally restore the novel's sharp, social energy, blending political banter, comic excess, and a wary eye for the absurdities of modern life. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.