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<p>Thanks to Boswell’s monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epitome and the sage of the Enlightenment. He is more often quoted than read, his name invoked in party conversation on such diverse topics as marriage, sleep, deceit, mental concentration, and patriotism, to generally humorous effect. But in Johnson’s own day, he was best known as an essayist, critic, and lexicographer: a gifted writer possessed of great force of mind and wisdom. Writing a century after Johnson, Ruskin wrote of Johnson’s essays: He “taught me to measure life, and distrust fortune...he saved me forever from false thoughts and futile speculations.” Peter Martin here presents “the heart of Johnson,” a selection of some of Johnson’s best moral and critical essays. At the center of this collection are the periodical essays from the <em>Rambler</em>, <em>Adventurer</em>, and <em>Idler</em>. Also included are Johnson’s great moral fable, <em>Rasselas</em>; the Prefaces to the Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; and selections from <em>Lives of the Poets</em>. Together, these works—allied in their literary, social, and m

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Author

Samuel Johnson, Patrick Cruttwell, Samuel Johnson

Publisher

Penguin Classics; Penguin Books

Published

1968

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140430332

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Poetry

Rating

4.03 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14