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Samuel Johnson Is One Of The Great Figures Of English Literature, Perhaps The Most Quoted English Writer After Shakespeare. This New Biography, The First Substantial One For Thirty Years, Illuminates The Johnson That James Boswell, Johnson's Famous Biographer, Never Knew: The Awkward And Suffering Youth, The Unsuccessful Schoolmaster, The Eccentric Marriage, His Early Years In London In The 1740s Scratching A Living, The Epic Struggle To Produce The Dictionary. He Was In Many Ways Very Much The Outsider. These Aspects Of Johnson Radically Modify The Conventional Picture Of Him As The Supremely Confident Dispenser Of Robust Common Sense. Peter Martin Portrays A Johnson Wracked By Recriminations, Self-doubt And Depression - A Man Whose Religious Faith Seems Only To Have Deepened His Fears.--book Jacket. Pt. I. Staffordshire Youth -- 1. Anecdotes Of Beggary -- 2. Stepping On The Duckling -- 3. Leaping Over The Rail -- 4. Two Benefactors -- Pt. Ii. Despondency And Hope -- 5. Oxford: Wielding A Scholar's Weapon -- 6. Horrible Imaginings -- 7. Stirrings In Birmingham -- 8. Taking A Wife -- Pt. Iii. Slow Rises Worth -- 9. Stranger In London -- 10. Sons Ofmisery: Finding Richard Savage --

Author

Martin, Peter, 1940-

Publisher

Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780297607199

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.95 / 5 (35 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13