Selected Essays
  • Published: 5 December 2003
  • ISBN: 9780140436273
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 640
  • RRP: $45.00

Selected Essays

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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'.
  • Published: 5 December 2003
  • ISBN: 9780140436273
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 640
  • RRP: $45.00
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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was the leading literary scholar and critic of his time. A writer of vigour, power, passion, and profundity, he helped to shape and define the Augustan Age.

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