Samuel Johnson

David Nokes

RRP: £25.00

Publisher: FABER & FABER

Publication Date : 31/12/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Nokes looks beyond the public persona and examines the troubled relationship with his first wife, whom he married for money, and his difficult relationships with his family.

Publisher's description:

Johnson, born weak and half-blind, shambolic and poverty-stricken, became one of the most quoted man in the eighteenth century. Thrown out of Oxford for a lack of funds, he rose to celebrity: author of the Dictionary, a friend to the king, companion of Reynolds, Goldsmith and Garrick. This book presents a portrait of Johnson, his life and world.

ISBN: 9780571226351