Samuel Johnson The Major Works |
|
Author:
| Johnson, Samuel |
Editor:
| Greene, Donald |
Series title: | Oxford World's Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-284042-4 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2000 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
|
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $24.95 |
Book Description:
|
This volume celebrates Johnson's astonishing talent by selecting widely across the full range of his work. It includes "London" and "The Vanity of Human Wishes" among other poems, and many of his essays for the Rambler and Idler. The prefaces to his edition of Shakespeare and his famous Dictionary, together with samples from the texts, are given, as well as selections from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, the Lives of the Poets, and Rasselas in its entirety.
This volume celebrates Johnson's astonishing talent by selecting widely across the full range of his work. It includes "London" and "The Vanity of Human Wishes" among other poems, and many of his essays for the Rambler and Idler. The prefaces to his edition of Shakespeare and his famous Dictionary, together with samples from the texts, are given, as well as selections from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, the Lives of the Poets, and Rasselas in its entirety.