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Works of Samuel Johnson
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 4.99This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.Table of ContentsThe Adventurer and Idler 175354; 175860A Grammar of the English TongueA Journey to... more...
Fenton's Quest
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 4.99Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible... more...
Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
ReadHowYouWant 2006; US$ 3.99It is a travelogue that encapsulates Johnson's eighty-three days' journey to Scotland and the islands of Hebrides in 1773. Johnson has portrayed Scotland by depicting the scenes picturesquely. The whole panorama enhances reader's interest to an utmost pleasure. Johnson has recorded and commented on the Scottish life including all its peculiarities.... more...
Preface to Shakespeare
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 4.99Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible... more...
A Dictionary of the English Language: an Anthology
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableSamuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words, been so thorough in its definitions, or illustrated usage by quoting from Shakespeare and other great writers. Johnson's was the dictionary used by Jane Austen... more...
Selected Essays
Penguin Books Ltd 2003; Not AvailableThis volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the distinctive prose style that established him as a public figure. Also included here is the best of Johnson's later journalism, including essays from the... more...
Consolation in the Face of Death
Penguin Books Ltd 2009; Not AvailableIn his moving essay, Samuel Johnson offers wise words on confronting grief at the loss of a loved one. The other pieces here, ranging from art to marriage to morality, demonstrate the brilliance, perception and wit that made Johnson the leading man of letters of his day, and one of the finest essayists in the English language. Throughout history,... more...
Journey to the Hebrides
Canongate Books 2010; US$ 12.49Introduced by Ian McGowan. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland. Both kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published separate accounts of their journey. These accounts of their great tour contain some of the finest pieces of travel writing ever produced: they... more...
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Melville House 2012; US$ 10.00His chief amusement was to picture to himself that world which he had never seen, to place himself in various conditions, to be entangled in imaginary difficulties, and to be engaged in wild adventures.... The other great book by the man who wrote the dictionary: This is Dr. Johnson's beautiful, engaging, and ultimately inspiring story of a... more...
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
ReadHowYouWant 2006; US$ 3.99The most inspiring work of Johnson a journey in search of the choice of life. It is a story of a prince Rasselas, who wants to escape from his boredom and decides to go in search of happiness of life with his companions. Simple plot is used in imaginative and artistic way. Not a journey to be missed! more...









