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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Good Clean Pre-Owned Hardback Copy.”
- ISBN
- 9780571226351
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Johnson, born weak and half-blind, shambolic and poverty-stricken, became the most admired and quoted man in the eighteenth century. Thrown out of Oxford for a lack of funds, he rose to celebrity: author of the Dictionary, a friend to the king, companion of Reynolds, Goldsmith and Garrick. David Nokes looks beyond Johnson's remarkable public persona and beyond the Johnson that Boswell to some extent created. Nokes looks at his troubled relationship with his first wife, whom he married for money but felt guilty about for the rest of his life; at his family, who haunted his dreams for years; and at his difficult, intimate relationship with Mrs Thrale. He shows a man who gave a quarter of the government pension he received to the poor, filled his home with the blind and destitute, and bequeathed his wealth to Frank Barber, an emancipated black slave brought from Jamaica. Insightful and engaging, Samuel Johnson draws an illuminating portrait of Johnson, his life and world.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9780571226351
eBay Product ID (ePID)
91972894
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2009
Book Title
Samuel Johnson: a Life
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
241 mm
Item Weight
724 g
Item Width
158 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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- g***2 (2148)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseReceived within a few days. Well packed, as described. Thanks.Lego Set 75827 Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters New MISB (#285604049205)
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