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Samuel Johnson

"Lives of the English Poets" is a seminal work by Samuel Johnson that offers insightful biographical sketches of notable English poets. Johnson meticulously examines the lives, works, and influences of poets such as John Milton, Alexander Pope, and Thomas Gray. His critical analysis not only highlights their literary contributions but also delves into their personal struggles and societal contexts. This collection serves as both a tribute to the poets and a reflection on the evolving natur...

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Samuel Johnson

INCH KEITH I had desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited; and was in the Autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniences of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed. On the eighteenth of Augus...

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Samuel Johnson

The story revolves around the character of Rasselas, the prince of Abyssinia (an ancient kingdom in what is now modern-day Ethiopia). Rasselas grows weary of his life of luxury and seclusion in the Happy Valley, a utopian place where he has been confined with other members of the royal family. Despite being surrounded by material comfort, Rasselas feels dissatisfied and longs for a deeper understanding of the meaning of life.Driven by this restlessness, Rasselas and his companions set out ...

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Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson, Xavier Sutton

In his seminal work, "Preface to Shakespeare," Samuel Johnson offers a profound exploration of Shakespeare's plays, melding literary criticism with a rich historical context. Johnson's eloquent prose reflects the 18th-century Enlightenment ideals, emphasizing reason and human experience while simultaneously celebrating the complexities of Shakespeare's characters and themes. He deftly navigates the interplay between the moral implications of Shakespeare's narratives and the artistic libert...

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Samuel Johnson

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The Works of Samuel Johnson

A brief essay on the life and genius of the prolific eighteenth-century English author, followed by a selection of his poetry, letters, and a novella.Under the pen name "Dr. Johnson," English writer Samuel Johnson was a biographer, essayist, lexicographer, literary critic, moralist, playwright, poet, and travel writer. The son of a bookseller, he made so many contributions to the English language that he is regarded as one of the greatest figures of eighteenth-cent...

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Samuel Johnson

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Digital Voice Martin G

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.There' something wild in this ''picture of a young girl hungering for life and love in the harsh outback plains of New South Wales''. Banned by the author herself until ten years after her death in 1954, this vivid Australian classic was originally published in Edinburgh.

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Samuel Johnson

This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the distinctive prose style that established him as a public figure. Also included here is the best of Johnson's later journalism, including essays from the periodicals 'The Adventurer' and 'The Idler'.

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Samuel Johnson

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Graham Scott

Young prince Rasselas is discontented with life in the idyllic Happy Valley, where the children of the King of Abyssinia are confined for life amid every pleasure that the heart could desire. Along with his sister Nekayah, and his friend the poet Imlac, Rasselas escapes the Valley to explore the world and the human condition, so that they may each make their own choice of life. As they encounter different classes of people and modes of life, they come to understand better the elusive natur...

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words, been so thorough in its definitions, or illustrated usage by quoting from Shakespeare and other great writers. Johnson's was the dictionary used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, Wordsworth and Coleridge, the Brontës and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. This new edition, edited by David Cr...

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Samuel Johnson

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Literary Classics

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Hubert Robert and Giovanni Paolo Panini. A prince kept all his life in a valley where every wish is granted escapes to find out what makes people happy, and reaches no conclusion at all. Johnson wrote it in the evenings of one week to pay for his mother's funeral, and never revised it. It is the most cheerful book ever written about the impossibility of contentment. Fifty-eight plates of classical ruins, capriccios,...

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Samuel Johnson

From the General Introduction: "Dr. Johnson's reaction to Shakespeare's tragedies is a curious one, compounded as it is of deep emotional involvement in a few scenes in some plays and a strange dispassionateness toward most of the others. I suspect that his emotional involvement took root when he read Shakespeare as a boy--one remembers the terror he experienced in reading of the Ghost in _Hamlet_, and it was probably also as a boy that he suffered that shock of horrified outrage and grief...