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Samuel Johnson: A Biography
by Peter Martin
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Samuel Johnson: A Biography
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. This new biography illuminates the unknown Johnson: 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. 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. 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.
- ISBN
9780753825921
- Published
- October 1st 2009 by Orion Publishing Co
- Category
- Literary
- Number of pages
- 568
- County of origin
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153
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