Samuel Johnson Biographer

Author : Peter Martin
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0297856162
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by Peter Martin and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert Folkenflik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson, Biographer written by Robert Folkenflik and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. Jackson Bate
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1582435243
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by W. Jackson Bate and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Johnson is a writer of such significance that his era — the second half of the 18th century — is known as the Age of Johnson. Starting out as a Grub Street journalist, he made his mark on history as a poet, author, moralist, literary critic, political commentator, and lexiconographer. We, as moderns, need to know this man, and W. Jackson Bate's formidable biography, with its uncanny depth and empathy, is the book that makes that happen. Professor W. Jackson Bate is a lyrical writer who deftly explains the effect Johnson has had on scholars, critics, and readers of all kinds through the past 200 years: "The reason Johnson has always fascinated so many people of different kinds," Bate writes, "is not simply that [he] is so vividly picturesque and quotable . . . The deeper secret of his hypnotic attraction, especially during our own generation, lies in the immense reassurance he gives to human nature." Bate delves deep into the character that formed Johnson's intellect and fueled his prodigious contribution to literature, religion, politics, and our understanding of the nature of humankind, revealing the fascinating nature — both odd and adored — of this literary luminary.

Author : David Nokes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 080508651X
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by David Nokes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert Folkenflik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson, biographer. (1. publ.) written by Robert Folkenflik and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1791, this biography of English writer, Samuel Johnson, has been described as the greatest biography ever written. Differing from others in that era, it contained not just a record of Johnson's public life, but instead painted a vivid portrait of him, and included extensive reports of Johnson's conversation. This edition is an abridged version edited by Charles Grosvenor Osgood.Note: there were no chapters in the main body of the text, so I added some arbitrary ones to break the text up a little bit.

Author : James Boswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Boswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The life of Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : Oldcastle Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1904915507
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by Jeffrey Meyers and published by Oldcastle Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : James Boswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.D6/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: