Samuel Johnson: The Life of an AuthorTracing Samuel Johnson's rocky climb from anonymity to fame, in the course of which he came to stand for both the greatness of English literature and the good sense of the common reader, Lipking shows how this life transformed the very nature of authorship. |
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First Flowers Johnsons Beginnings | 34 |
Becoming an Author London Life of Savage | 48 |
Preferments Gate The Vanity of Human Wishes | 86 |
Man of Letters A Dictionary of the English Language | 103 |
The Living World The Rambler | 145 |
Reclaiming Imagination Rasselas | 173 |
The Theater of Mind The Plays of William Shakespeare | 198 |
Journeying Westward Political Writings A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
Touching the Shore The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
The Life to Come Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Abbreviation | 307 |
Notes | 309 |
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author |
| Autor | Lawrence Lipking |
| Editor | Harvard University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0674040287, 9780674040281 |
| Largo | 384 páginas |
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