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The life of Samuel Johnson
Author | : James Boswell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1820 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:600046199 |
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The Life of Samuel Johnson LL D
Author | : James Boswell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1826 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044086771888 |
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Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading
Author | : Robert DeMaria Jr.,Robert DeMaria |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 1997-04-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780801854798 |
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In Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, Robert DeMaria considers the surprising influence of one of the greatest readers in English literature. Johnson's relationship to books not only reveals much about his life and times, DeMaria contends, but also provides a dramatic counterpoint to modern reading habits. As a superior practitioner of the craft, Johnson provides a compelling model for how to read—indeed, he provides different models for different kinds of reading. DeMaria shows how Johnson recognized early that not all reading was alike—some requiring intense concentration, some suited for cursory glances, some requiring silence, some best appreciated amid the chatter of a coffeehouse. Considering the remarkable range of Johnson's reading, DeMaria discovers in one extraordinary career a synoptic view of the subject. "Enacts Johnson's celebrated variation on a theme from Horace—it does not merely delight and instruct, but rather instructs by delighting us . . . DeMaria proves himself a reader altogether worthy of his subject."—Times Literary Supplement "Fascinatingly perceptive both of Johnson's own reading habits and of their significance in the cultural history of reading."—Modern Language Review "Both a scholarly and an imaginative achievement, combining detailed detective work, abstract categorization, and sympathetic understanding. The finished product re-creates the detailed fabric of Johnson's reading career while locating it in a cultural landscape of rapid publication and growing literacy . . . Eminently readable, learned, and thoughtful."—Modern Philology "An intellectual history of the writer and his age."—Magill's Literary Annual "DeMaria presents an imaginative re-creation of Johnson's library and suggests how his reading habits offered a model for preventing the disappearance of the reader."—Biblio
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL D
Author | : John Hawkins |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1787 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : OXFORD:400311898 |
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
Author | : James Boswell |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2013-07-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781627932813 |
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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. While Johnson's Dictionary remains a monument of scholarship, and his essays and criticism command continuing respect, we owe our knowledge of the man himself to this biography. Through a series of wonderfully detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure with a huge appetite for life, crossing swords with other great eighteenth-century luminaries, from Garrick and Goldsmith to Burney and Burke - even his long-suffering friend and disciple James Boswell.Yet Johnson had a vulnerable, even tragic, side and anxieties and obsessions haunted his private hours. Boswell's sensitivity and insight into every facet of his subject's character ultimately make this biography as moving as it is entertaining. Based on the 1799 edition, Christopher Hibbert's abridgement preserves the integrity of the original, while his fascinating introduction sets Boswell's view of Samuel Johnson against that of others of the time.
The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time
Author | : Robert McCrum |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1903385830 |
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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 --
Macaulay s Life of Samuel Johnson
Author | : Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Readers |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044097059174 |
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Samuel Johnson
Author | : David Nokes |
Publsiher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780805086515 |
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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.