Dr. Johnson S Works

Dr. Johnson S Works
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Publisher : Legare Street Press
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ISBN-10 : 1017913005
ISBN-13 : 9781017913002
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Synopsis Dr. Johnson S Works by : Samuel Johnson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.
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Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : UGA:32108010790056
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Synopsis The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. by : Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson
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Publisher : Oldcastle Books Ltd
Total Pages : 543
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ISBN-10 : 9781904915508
ISBN-13 : 1904915507
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Samuel Johnson by : Jeffrey Meyers

Jeffrey 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.

Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return

Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return
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Publisher : Coffee House Press
Total Pages : 171
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ISBN-10 : 9781566895361
ISBN-13 : 1566895367
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return by : Martin Riker

A Summer/Fall 2018 Indies Introduce Debut Fiction Selection When Samuel Johnson dies, he finds himself in the body of the man who killed him, unable to depart this world but determined, at least, to return to the son he left behind. Moving from body to body as each one expires, Samuel’s soul journeys on a comic quest through an American half-century, inhabiting lives as stymied, in their ways, as his own. A ghost story of the most unexpected sort, Martin Riker’s extraordinary debut is about the ways experience is mediated, the unstoppable drive for human connection, and the struggle to be more fully alive in the world. Martin Riker grew up in central Pennsylvania. He worked as a musician for most of his twenties, in nonprofit literary publishing for most of his thirties, and has spent the first half of his forties teaching in the English department at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2010, he and his wife Danielle Dutton co-founded the feminist press Dorothy, a Publishing Project. His fiction and criticism have appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, London Review of Books, the Baffler, and Conjunctions. This is his first novel.

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9780297856160
ISBN-13 : 0297856162
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Samuel Johnson by : Peter Martin

The 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.

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 469
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ISBN-10 : 9780805086515
ISBN-13 : 080508651X
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Samuel Johnson by : David Nokes

In this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted his work.

The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time

The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1903385830
ISBN-13 : 9781903385838
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Synopsis The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time by : Robert McCrum

Beginning 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 --