Samuel Johnson: Selected Essays

by Samuel Johnson, Manor Books

Overview

This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the distinctive prose style that established him as a public figure. Also included here is the best of Johnson's later journalism, including essays from the periodicals 'The Adventurer' and 'The Idler'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782377874965
Publisher:	AB Books
Publication date:	07/22/2017
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1000
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was the leading literary scholar and critic of his time. A writer of vigor, power, passion, and profundity, he helped to shape and define the Augustan Age.

David Womersley teaches at Jesus College, Oxford, and edited Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for Penguin Classics.