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Author | : Jeffrey Meyers |
Publisher | : Oldcastle Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 2015-11-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1904915507 |
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.
Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 853 |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0300258003 |
A one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain’s pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain’s preeminent man of letters, and his influence endures to this day. He excelled as a moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet. This anthology, designed to make Johnson’s essential works accessible to students and general readers, draws its texts from the definitive Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. In most cases, texts are included in full rather than excerpted. The anthology includes many essays from The Rambler and other periodicals; Rasselas; the prefaces to Johnson’s Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; the complete Lives of Cowley, Milton, Pope, Savage, and Gray, as well as generous selections from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Some parts are arranged thematically, allowing readers to focus on such topics as religion, marriage, war, and literature. The anthology includes a biographical introduction, and its ample annotation updates and enlarges the commentary in the Yale Edition.
Author | : James Boswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1826 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
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Author | : Samuel Johnson |
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Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1825 |
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Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1968-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780300000160 |
This selection of the cream of the writing from Volumes II-V of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson fills the largest remaining gap in easily available eighteenth-century texts for the student and general reader. The edition provides in popular form the amplest selection available of Johnson’s essays, ranging from his great moral pieces to the valuable essays on literary criticisms. The text is that of the authoritative Yale Edition and includes full annotation. An introduction by W.J. Bate provides a concise summary of the publication history of the essays and probes in detail the moral vision that pervades most of them. Mr. Bate is Lowell Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and joint editor of Volumes II-V of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson.
Author | : Octavius Francis Christie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1924 |
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Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publisher | : London : J.M. Dent |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : English essays |
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Author | : Kim Johnson |
Publisher | : Ember |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2022-05-17 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0593118790 |
"Incredible and searing." --Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin The Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting first novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system. Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time--her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy's older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a "thug" on the run, accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike. But will Tracy and her family survive the uncovering of the skeletons of their Texas town's racist history that still haunt the present? Fans of Nic Stone, Tiffany D. Jackson, and Jason Reynolds won't want to miss this provocative and gripping debut.
Author | : S. Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1823 |
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Author | : David Nokes |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 080508651X |
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.