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Poet, lexicographer, critic, moralist and Great Cham, Dr. Johnson had in his friend Boswell the ideal biographer.
Notoriously and self-confessedly intemperate, Boswell shared with Johnson a huge appetite for life and threw equal energy into recording its every aspect in minute but telling detail. This irrepressible Scotsman was 'always studying human nature and making experiments', and the marvelously vivacious Journals he wrote daily furnished him with first-rate material when he came to write his biography.
The result is a masterpiece that brims over with wit, anecdote and originality. Hailed by Macaulay as the best biography ever written and by Carlyle as a book 'beyond any other product of the eighteenth century', The Life of Samuel Johnson today continues to enjoy its status as a classic of the language.
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Biography, Description and travel, English Authors, Early works to 1800, Interviews, Lexicographers, KDescr. & trav, Intellectual life, Critics, Intellectuals, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Authors, English, SAMUEL JOHNSON, Authors, biography, Biografie, Travel, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Places
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Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1987, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
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Life of Johnson: Edited by Augustine Birrell
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The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
1873, W. P. Nimmo
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- New and complete ed., carefully revised from the most authentic sources. Edited, with notes, etc., by William Wallace, M. A.
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The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D: including A journal of his tour to the Hebrides
1846, Harper & Brothers
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- New ed., with numerous additions and notes / by John Wilson Croker.
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The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition never before published: the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished.
1824, C. Ewer & T. Bedlington
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- A new ed., by James Boswell; copious notes and biographical illustrations by Malone.
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The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolatory correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published: the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great-Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
1807, W. Andrews and L. Blake
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- 1st American from the 5th London ed.
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