Samuel Johnson: A Biography - Softcover

Martin, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753825929 ISBN 13: 9780753825921

Verlag: Orion Publishing Group, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. This new biography illuminates the unknown Johnson: the awkward youth, the unsuccessful schoolmaster, the eccentric marriage, his early years in London in the 1740s scratching a living, the epic struggle to produce the Dictionary. Using material unknown to previous biographers, Peter Martin describes the psychological knife-edge on which Johnson felt he lived, caused by his severe melancholia and his physical diseases. The Samuel Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable and sympathetic figure than the one that Boswell so memorably portrayed.

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Peter Martin was born in Argentina of English parents and educated there and in the US. He has taught English literature on both sides of the Atlantic and written extensively on 18th-century British and American literature and culture. He divides his time between Spain and a house in West Sussex.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Orion Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0753825929
• ISBN 13: 9780753825921
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 544
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