Item #2330845 The Life of Samuel Johnson, Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, in Two Volumes. James Boswell, John Wilson Croker.
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, in Two Volumes

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, in Two Volumes

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2330845

Volume I: Two inch tear to spine head panel. Both volumes: Edges rubbed, loss to spine head and to spine base.

xiii, 563; 505 pp. Two volume set. Additions and notes by John Wilson Croker. Samuel Johnson, byname Dr. Johnson, (born September 18, 1709, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England—died December 13, 1784, London), English critic, biographer, essayist, poet, and lexicographer, regarded as one of the greatest figures of 18th-century life and letters. Johnson once characterized literary biographies as “mournful narratives,” and he believed that he lived “a life radically wretched.” Yet his career can be seen as a literary success story of the sickly boy from the Midlands who by talent, tenacity, and intelligence became the foremost literary figure and the most formidable conversationalist of his time. For future generations, Johnson was synonymous with the later 18th century in England. The disparity between his circumstances and achievement gives his life its especial interest. - Britannica

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