Thanks to Boswell's monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epitome and the sage of the Enlightenment. But in Johnson's own day, he was best known as an essayist, critic, and lexicographer. At the center of this collection are the periodical essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. Together, these works - allied in their literary, social, and moral concerns - are the ones that continue to speak urgently to readers today.
- ISBN13 9780674054073
- Publish Date 30 September 2009 (first published 6 July 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 536
- Language English
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