The Life of Samuel Johnson, Paperback

In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in ...

The only student edition of Samuel Johnson's great eighteenth-century literary biography.

Thanks to Boswell's monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epi...

Reducere. A classic reissue of Richard Holmes's brilliant book on Samuel Johnson's friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Pr...

Reducere. In this delightfully imaginative novel, once again, hell threatens to break loose as Samuel Johnson and his ragtag group of friends must defend the...

Twenty years after the siege of Sarajevo, BBC Samuel Johnson Prize winner Barbara Demick revisits her compelling account of living in a city under ...

An exploration of life in the digital age, and how new science is changing our inner selves. Now in paperback, it was shortlisted for the Samuel Jo...

Adapted for the stage by Terry Johnson Based on the novel by Charles Webb and the screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry Comedy Characters:...

An analysis of the thirteen historical psalms in the Psalter that refer to crucial moments in King David's life as recorded in the Samuel narrative...

The brightest star at the court of King Charles II, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-80), lived a life of reckless debauchery and sexual advent...

Presents the stories of Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson; Randolph Turpin, Britain's first black world...

B format edition of Beryl Bainbridge's critically acclaimed fictional exploration of the life of Samuel Johnson, perhaps the greatest man of letter...

Description"I mentioned our design to Voltaire, " wrote Boswell. "He looked at me as if I had talked of going to the North Pole ..." As it turned o...

Immensely proud of her aristocratic Welsh ancestry, Hester Lynch was one of the most talented female authors of the long eighteenth century. A frie...

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah, and the much-trav...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Samuel B. ChartersFrom the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the countr...

DescriptionNot originally intended for publication, the celebrated and controversial correspondences between Lord Chesterfield and his son Philip, ...

Reducere. "Unpredictable and amusing and informative and original, cavorting between biology, history, travel writing, and memoir."--Mark Kurlansky The Whale...

Reducere. The Female Quixote, a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays Arabella, the beautiful daughter of a marquis, whose ...

Reducere. The Rape of the Lock (1906) is an epic poem by English literary icon Alexander Pope. Known for his caustic wit and satirical outlook as much as he ...

Reducere. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for NonfictionWinner of the Costa Biography Award**Washington Post Best Books of 2013****Economist Best Books of...

Reducere. Journey to the Center of London, England "By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show." -Samuel Johnson * * * Updated for 2...

Reducere. Un libro que ha cautivado y conmovido a cr tica y p blico. Henry Marsh, el eminente neurocirujano brit nico expone a ojos del mundo la esencia de u...