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17) Life of Johnson
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English
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Samuel Johnson is famously known for single-handedly creating the first recognized dictionary of the English language, just one of many his many renowned accomplishments. The biography of this remarkable writer, dramatist, poet, and moralist was penned by his friend, James Boswell, in 1791. An immediate success upon its publication, this work has come to be considered the greatest biography produced in the English language, and has earned Boswell...
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English
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In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure, vigorously engaging and fencing with great contemporaries such as Garrick, Goldsmith, Burney and Burke, and of course with Boswell himself. Yet anxieties...
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Works volume 9
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English
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Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
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Great books of the Western World volume 5, 41
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English
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell is a biography of English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson. (From Wikipedia)
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