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Magical Tome

Cover of Samuel Johnson
First published
1977
Latest edition
1998
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pages
646 pages
Language
ENG
ISBN
1887178767

Samuel Johnson

by Walter Jackson Bate

About this book

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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