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An edition of Life of Samuel Johnson (1776)

The life of Samuel Johnson

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Poet, lexicographer, critic, moralist and Great Cham, Dr. Johnson had in his friend Boswell the ideal biographer.

Notoriously and self-confessedly intemperate, Boswell shared with Johnson a huge appetite for life and threw equal energy into recording its every aspect in minute but telling detail. This irrepressible Scotsman was 'always studying human nature and making experiments', and the marvelously vivacious Journals he wrote daily furnished him with first-rate material when he came to write his biography.

The result is a masterpiece that brims over with wit, anecdote and originality. Hailed by Macaulay as the best biography ever written and by Carlyle as a book 'beyond any other product of the eighteenth century', The Life of Samuel Johnson today continues to enjoy its status as a classic of the language.

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Cover of: The life of Samuel Johnson
The life of Samuel Johnson
1992, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English
Cover of: Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1987, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
in English
Cover of: Boswell's Life of Johnson
Boswell's Life of Johnson
1917, Scribner's Sons
Cover of: The life of Samuel Johnson
The life of Samuel Johnson
1907, Dent, Dutton
in English
Cover of: Life of Johnson
Cover of: Boswell's Life of Johnson
Cover of: The life of Johnson
Cover of: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
1873, W. P. Nimmo
in English - New and complete ed., carefully revised from the most authentic sources. Edited, with notes, etc., by William Wallace, M. A.
Cover of: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D
The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D: including A journal of his tour to the Hebrides
1846, Harper & Brothers
in English - New ed., with numerous additions and notes / by John Wilson Croker.
Cover of: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
Cover of: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxiv-xxxvii) and index.

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New York
Series
Everyman's library ;, 101

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
828/.609, B
Library of Congress
PR3533 .B6 1992, PR3533.B6 1992

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Pagination
liii, 1278 p. :
Number of pages
1278

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Open Library
OL1744080M
ISBN 10
0679417176
LCCN
92052915
OCLC/WorldCat
25632088
Library Thing
15083
Goodreads
688826

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