An edition of Life of Samuel Johnson (1776)

Life of Johnson

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An edition of Life of Samuel Johnson (1776)

Life of 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: Life of Johnson
Life of Johnson
2008, Oxford University Press
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
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Cover of: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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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. xxxv-xxxvi) and index.

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Oxford, New York
Series
Oxford World's classics
Genre
Biography.

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Library of Congress
PR3533 .B6 2008,

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Pagination
xxxvi, 1492 p. ;
Number of pages
1492

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OL22553290M
ISBN 13
9780199540211
LCCN
2008274068
OCLC/WorldCat
223948393
Library Thing
15083
Goodreads
4122272

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