Books related to Samuel JohnsonHappier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
by Gretchen Rubin Description : In the spirit of her blockbuster #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin embarks on a new project to make home a happier place. One Sunday afternoon, as she unloaded the dishwasher, Gretchen Rubin felt hit by a wave of homesickness. Homesick...more.. Amazon Price : $26.00
Samuel Johnson
by Leslie Stephen Description : This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery....more.. Amazon Price : $0.00
Samuel Johnson: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
by Samuel Johnson Description : Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell, the subject of one of the most famous English biographies. This volume celebrates Johnson'...more.. Amazon Price : $16.95
Samuel Johnson: A Biography
by W. Jackson Bate Description : 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...more.. Amazon Price : $24.95
Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum
by Freya Johnston Description : Samuel Johnson: The Arc of the Pendulum offers unique insight into the works of Samuel Johnson by re-considering William Hazlitt's oft-cited comparison between Johnson's prose and a pendulum. In 1819, William Hazlitt condemned Samuel Johnson's prose style as 'a species of rhyming' in which...more.. Amazon Price : $65.00
Samuel Johnson: A Biography
by Peter Martin Description : Bewigged, muscular and for his day unusually tall, adorned in soiled, rumpled clothes, beset by involuntary tics, opinionated, powered in his conversation by a prodigious memory and intellect, Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) was in his life a literary and social icon as no other age has produced. ...more.. Amazon Price : $35.00
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories
by Lydia Davis Description : From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple suspects their friends think them boring;...more.. Amazon Price : $16.00
Samuel Johnson: The Struggle
by Jeffrey Meyers Description : Ford Madox Ford declared Samuel Johnson the most tragic of all our major literary figures.” Blessed with a formidable intellect and a burning passion for ideas, Johnson also struggled throughout his life with mental instability and numerous physical defects. One of the most illustrious figu...more.. Amazon Price : $35.00
The Infernals: A Samuel Johnson Tale
by John Connolly Description : “Roald Dahl meets Harry Potter”* in this wonderfully strange and brilliant novel about a boy, his dog, and their struggle to escape the wrath of demons. Young Samuel Johnson is in trouble. Not only is his eyesight so poor that he mistakenly asks out a letter box on a date but an angry demon w...more.. Amazon Price : $15.00
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