Samuel Johnson
18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784
1,306 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Samuel Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".[1] He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.[2] (Source.)
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Most-read books
A dictionary of the English language
2.5 · 1747 · 168 want to read
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
5 · 1759 · 55 want to read
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
4 · 1775 · 45 want to read
Lives of the poets
1820 · 26 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition
3 · 2002 · 16 want to read
The rambler
2 · 1750 · 18 want to read
The lives of the most eminent English poets
5 · 1779 · 12 want to read
Prayers and meditations
1785 · 8 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature--The British Tradition
2000 · 10 want to read
Preface to Shakespeare
2004 · 5 want to read
Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler
4 · 1968 · 2 want to read
Johnson on Shakespeare
1908 · 2 want to read
The Major Works
2000 · 2 want to read
Johnson's English dictionary
1830 · 2 want to read
The Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson
1981 · 2 want to read
The idler
1761 · 1 want to read
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[The works of Samuel Johnson]
1903 · 1 want to read
Preface to Shakespeare
5 · 1985 · 1 want to read
London
1738 · 2 want to read
Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Johnson
1950 · 2 want to read
Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare
1960 · 2 want to read
The vanity of human wishes
1749 · 1 want to read
Selected works
1965 · 1 want to read
The works of Samuel Johnson
1903 · 1 want to read