Samuel Johnson; His Friends and Enemies
Author : Peter Quennell
Publisher : London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Peter Quennell
Publisher : London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Leo Damrosch
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300244967
Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as “the Club.” In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the “odd couple” Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth-century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own.
Author : Peter Quennell
Publisher : London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 19,68 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780070510401
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 12,93 MB
Release : 1832
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Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 1816
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Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : Oldcastle Books Ltd
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 2015-11-27
Category : 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 :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 1840
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Author : John Connolly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1476757119
In this delightfully imaginative novel, once again, hell threatens to break loose as Samuel Johnson and his ragtag group of friends must defend their town from shadowy forces more threatening than ever before... In this clever and quirky follow-up to The Gates and The Infernals, Samuel Johnson's life seems to have finally settled down—after all, he’s still got the company of his faithful dachshund, Boswell, and his bumbling demon friend, Nurd; he has foiled the dreaded forces of darkness not once, but twice; and he’s dating the lovely Lucy Highmore, to boot. But things in the little English town of Biddlecombe rarely run smoothly for long. Shadows are gathering in the skies, a black heart of pure evil is bubbling with revenge, and it rather looks as if the Multiverse is about to come to an end, starting with Biddlecombe. When a new toy shop’s opening goes terrifyingly awry, Samuel must gather a ragtag band of dwarfs, policemen, and very polite monsters to face down the greatest threat the Multiverse has ever known, not to mention assorted vampires, a girl with an unnatural fondness for spiders, and highly flammable unfriendly elves. The latest installment of John Connolly’s wholly original and creepily imaginative Samuel Johnson Tales, The Creeps is humorous horror for anyone who enjoys fiction at its best.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 1811
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Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 1820
Category : English literature
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