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With these two volumes Princeton University Press concludes the first scholarly edition of the letters of Samuel Johnson to appear in forty years. Volume IV chronicles the last three years of Johnsonâs life, an epistolary endgame that...
With these two volumes Princeton University Press concludes the first scholarly edition of the letters of Samuel Johnson to appear in forty years. Volume IV chronicles the last three years of Johnsonâs life, an epistolary endgame that...
The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents a feature of special importance in the case of Johnsonâs revealing letters to Hester Thrale, many of which have been available only in...
With these two volumes Princeton University Press concludes the first scholarly edition of the letters of Samuel Johnson to appear in forty years. Volume IV chronicles the last three years of Johnsonâs life, an epistolary endgame that...
"It is now become so much the fashion to publish letters, that in order to avoid it, I put as little into mine as I can," Samuel Johnson declared, according to Boswell. And Boswell answered, "Do what you will, Sir, you cannot avoid it. Should...
The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents a feature of special importance in the case of Johnsonâs revealing letters to Hester Thrale, many of which have been available only in...
The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents a feature of special importance in the case of Johnsonâs revealing letters to Hester Thrale, many of which have been available only in...
The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents a feature of special importance in the case of Johnsonâs revealing letters to Hester Thrale, many of which have been available only in...
"It is now become so much the fashion to publish letters, that in order to avoid it, I put as little into mine as I can," Samuel Johnson declared, according to Boswell. And Boswell answered, "Do what you will, Sir, you cannot avoid it. Should...
With these two volumes Princeton University Press concludes the first scholarly edition of the letters of Samuel Johnson to appear in forty years. Volume IV chronicles the last three years of Johnsonâs life, an epistolary endgame that...