Samuel Johnson

Peter Martin

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Publisher: PHOENIX

Publication Date : 01/10/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Following in the footsteps of Boswell, this is the first new biography for a generation of Samuel Johnson - poet, essayist, biographer, critic, conversationist and wit. 2009 is the 300th anniversary of Johnson's birth, and in this book Martin has used material unknown to previous biographers. Trade paperback. 'Well-researched, fully annotated and judiciously expressed' "Literary Review"

Publisher's description:

The first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature: Samuel Johnson - poet, essayist, biographer, critic, conversationalist and wit.

ISBN: 9780753825921