Samuel Johnson
by Walter Jackson Bate · 1977
Popularity 6
An account of Dr. Johnson's dramatic personal life, monumental genius, and boundless literary activities and impact follows him from poverty and hack work, through trial and tumult, to lionization as the unchallenged literary arbiter of his times.
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