Reproduction of the original: The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell.
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. By James Boswell This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. , a work that has not been widely available in complete form for more than two hundred years.
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Boswell's biography of Samuel Johnson, Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.