The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: John Hawkins
Publisher:
Published: 1787
Total Pages: 636
ISBN-13:
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Boswell's Presumptuous Task
Author: Adam Sisman
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780007234295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith great wit, Sisman here tells the story of Boswell's presumptuous task--the making of the greatest biography of all time. Sisman traces the friendship between Boswell and Samuel Johnson, his mentor, and provides a fascinating account of Boswell's seven-year struggle to write "The Life of Samuel Johnson."
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: London : T. Cadwell and W. Davies
Published: 1807
Total Pages: 496
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Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2021-01-05
Total Pages: 853
ISBN-13: 0300258003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain’s pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain’s preeminent man of letters, and his influence endures to this day. He excelled as a moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet. This anthology, designed to make Johnson’s essential works accessible to students and general readers, draws its texts from the definitive Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. In most cases, texts are included in full rather than excerpted. The anthology includes many essays from The Rambler and other periodicals; Rasselas; the prefaces to Johnson’s Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; the complete Lives of Cowley, Milton, Pope, Savage, and Gray, as well as generous selections from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Some parts are arranged thematically, allowing readers to focus on such topics as religion, marriage, war, and literature. The anthology includes a biographical introduction, and its ample annotation updates and enlarges the commentary in the Yale Edition.
Samuel Johnson
Author: Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher: Oldcastle Books Ltd
Published: 2015-11-27
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13: 1904915507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition. Johnson was famous as a poet, novelist, biographer, essayist, critic, editor, lexicographer, conversationalist and larger than life personality. After nine years of work Johnson's, 'A dictionary of the English Language, was published in 1755. He overcame great adversity to achieve success. 'The Struggle' is a masterful portrait of a brilliant and tormented figure.
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James Boswell
Publisher:
Published: 1826
Total Pages: 438
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Author: Greg Clingham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-10-16
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780521556255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and life of one of the key figures in English literary history.
Samuel Johnson
Author: Peter Martin
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2012-08-16
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0297856162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. Our view of Johnson has been overwhelmingly shaped by James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, published in 1791, the most famous biography in the English language. But invaluable as Boswell is as a source, he should not be the last word. This new biography illuminates the Johnson that Boswell never knew: the awkward youth, the unsuccessful schoolmaster, the eccentric marriage, his early years in London in the 1740s scratching a living, the epic struggle to produce the Dictionary. Very much the outsider, rather than the supremely confident dispenser of robust common sense. Using material unknown to previous biographers, Peter Martin describes the psychological knife-edge on which Johnson felt he lived, caused by his severe melancholia and his physical diseases. He explores Johnson's role in the publishing and printing world of the time and he reveals how important women were to Johnson throughout his life. The Samuel Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable and sympathetic figure than the one that Boswell so memorably portrayed.
The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time
Author: Robert McCrum
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781903385838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
Dr. Johnson S Works
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781017913002
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