Collects a large sampling of Samuel Johnson's creativity, including journalism, dictionary of the English language, literary criticism, biographies of poets, letters, and other writings

Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Samuel, Johnson

Literary

Penguin Classics

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." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)

United States

In his moving essay, Samuel Johnson offers wise words on confronting grief at the loss of a loved one. The other pieces here, ranging from art to marriage to morality, demonstrate the brilliance, perception and wit that made Johnson the leading man of letters of his day, and one of the finest essayists in the English language. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Great Ideas Consolation in the Face of Death

Essays & Correspondence

Penguin Uk

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Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson (Oxford Paperbacks)

James, Boswell

Oxford University Press

Rasselas (Oxford Paperbacks)

Letters of Samuel Johnson

Biographies & Memoirs

The Works of the English Poets, From Chaucer to Cowper, Vol. 18 of 21: Including the Series Edited, With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical; Cotton, ... Jones, Beattie, Cowper (Classic Reprint)

Poetry

Forgotten Books

A Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 of 2: In Which the Words Are Deduced From Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples From the Best Writers; To Which Ar

Excerpt from The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers: The Fourth Edition; To Which Are Added, the Lives of Sir Francis Drake, and Admiral Blake But this Eitpe tation, however plaufible, has been very frequently difappointed. T he Heroes of literary, as well as civil Hillary have been very often no lefs remarkable for what they have fullered than for what they have achieved and Volumes have been written only to enumemte the Mikriea of the Learned, and relate their unhappy Lives and an. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers: The Fourth Edition; To Which Are Added, the Lives of Sir Francis Drake, and Admiral Blake (Classic Reprint)

Historical

Excerpt from A Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 of 4: In Which the Words Are Deduced From Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples From the Best Writers; To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English GrammarHis long-promised edition of Shakespeare appeared in 17 65, and was ushered in by a preface written with all the powers of his masterly pen, and certainly among the most valuable of his critical disquisitions. His arguments against the existence of even a temporary illusion in the Spec tator during a dramatic performance, seem, however, to indicate that want of ductility to impressions on the organs of sense, which may be traced in his judgments on other attempts to act upon the imagination. The edition itself disappointed those who had conceived high expectations of his ability to elucidate the obscurities of the great dramatist. Sound sense was frequently displayed in comparing'the different readings sug gested by different critics but little felicity of original conjecture, and none of that knowledge of the language and writings of the age in and near which Shakespeare ﬂourished, which has since been found the only ge'nuine source of illustration.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 of 4: In Which the Words Are Deduced From Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different ... a History of the Language, and an English G

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