| Samuel Johnson Illustrated Contributor(s): Stephens, Leslie (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798588156295 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - Performing Arts | Film - General |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (0.52 lbs) 198 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 OS 7 September] - 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, Literarycritic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, 1] and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in EnglishHistory". 2] He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature |