Samuel Johnson: A BiographyJohn Wain presents a major biography of England's greatest man of letters. He describes how "Johnson often mixed with people who were desperate human wrecks, some of whom were close friends; to the end of his life he filled house with people who were not successes in the eyes of the world, yet at the same time he conversed on equal and better than equal terms with the most important and brilliant people of that time." |
Contents
In the Midlands | |
A Poor Diseased Infant | |
Mentors | |
Ah Sir I was Rude and Violent | |
From Wolstan to Werburgh | |
WordHoard | |
True Evident and Actual Wisdom | |
Toil Envy Want | |
A Death and a Journey in the Mind | |
The Machine Stops | |
You dogs Ill have a frisk with you | |
Whos for Poonsh? | |
Effort and Collapse | |
Time of Decision | |
Grub Street | |
At St Johns Gate | |
The Friend of Goodness | |
Stalemate | |
The Dictionary Years | |
Crossing the | |
The Tragic Muse | |
Diversions of a Lexicographer | |
Alone | |
I Now Begin to See Land | |
The Two Families | |
The Great Republic of Human Nature | |
The Padlock | |
Old Acquaintance | |
A Hundred Days in a Strange Land | |
The Thoughts of One Who Has Seen but Little | |
Countries of the Mind | |
Alone Again | |
Afterwards | |
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