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The Personal History Of Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson's Literary Criticism
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of eighteenth-century English letters stands Samuel Johnson — poet, moralist, and arguably the...
The Life of Samuel Johnson
A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a...
The History Of Rasselas: Prince Of Abissinia
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat begins as a prince's restless flight from paradise becomes one of the most searching philosophical meditations in the English...
The Complete English Poems
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the towering intellect of eighteenth-century English literature comes The Complete English Poems, a definitive collection...
Heroes Next Door
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The Creeps: A Samuel Johnson Adventure: 3
Samuel Johnson is not in a happy place. He is dating the wrong girl, demons are occupying his spare room, and the town in which he lives appears to be...
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections From The 1755 Work That Defined The English Language
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Johnson on Savage: The Life of Mr Richard Savage by Samuel Johnson
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour
Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson's descriptions...
Love Your Sister
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Rasselas, Poems, And Selected Prose
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures loom as large in the 18th-century literary canon as Samuel Johnson — moralist, poet,...
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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The Creeps: A Samuel Johnson Adventure: 3
Samuel Johnson is not in a happy place. He is dating the wrong girl, demons are occupying his spare room, and the town in which he lives appears to be...
Lives Of The English Poets
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Dear Santa
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Johnson: Prose And Poetry
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Samuel Johnson — lexicographer, moralist, and the most formidable...
Dear Mum
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A Dictionary of the English Language: an Anthology
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words,...
Selected Essays
This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character...
Dear Dad
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The Life Of Dr. Johnson
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Boswell's Presumptuous Task
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A heroic, brilliantly detailed portrait of the biographer as artist. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and...
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary
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By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride...
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah, and the much-travelled philosopher Imlac. Their journey takes them to...
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary
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Author: Henry Hitchings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year In 1746, Samuel Johnson undertook the Herculean task of writing the first...
Johnson And Boswell: The Story Of Their Lives
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Johnson And Boswell: The Transit Of Caledonia
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The Way of All Flesh
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Mild foxing on cream cloth.This book is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler, exploring themes of individuality and societal...
H is for Hawk: The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel Johnson Prize Winner
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Love Your Sister
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The Life Of Dashiell Hammett
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind every hard-boiled detective story lies the man who invented the genre — and Diane Johnson's The Life of Dashiell Hammett is the definitive portrait...
A Higher Form of Cannibalism?: Adventures in the Art and Politics of
Carl Rollyson's lively and anecdotal investigation of writing about the lives others examines his own practices as well as those of biographers from Samuel Johnson to Richard Ellmann and many...
Granny Samurai and the Brain of Ultimate Doomitude
Second instalment about the adventures of this quirky, off-beat comedy duo - a boy scribe and a kick-ass granny. "I have not long now. The fire is dying and I...
In The Footsteps Of Johnson And Boswell: A Modern Day Journey Through Scotland
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a sharp-eyed modern journalist retraces one of the most celebrated journeys in English literary history?...
James Boswell: The Later Years 1769–1795
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Author: Frank BradyBinding: HardbackPublished: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsJames Boswell: The Later Years 1769-1795 presents a meticulous biographical account of one of literature's most...
H is for Hawk: The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel
**WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR** **WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION** **WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE TRANGER** 'Dazzling... Deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and...
Selected Letters Of Samuel Richardson
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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew figures loom as large in the origins of the English...
An Encyclopaedia of Myself
LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014 `Nothing wilfully invented. Memory invents unbidden.' The 1950s were not grey. In Jonathan Meades's detailed, petit-point memoir they are luridly polychromatic. They were...
The Private Papers of James Boswell (Eight-Volume Set)
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Author: James BoswellBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann, London, 1951Condition:Book: Good/FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis distinguished eight‑volume set of eighteenth‑century biography and travel literature...
The Itinerário Of Jerónimo Lobo
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Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsA landmark work of seventeenth-century travel literature and historical memoir, The Itinerário of...