Dr. Johnson: His Life in LettersPrentice-Hall, 1965 - 239 pages "David Littlejohn has selected 246 of Samuel Johnson's most expressive letters to reveal, in Johnson's own words, a continuous dramatic narrative of his career and of life in eighteenth-century London. This book is an intimate self-portrait-a spontaneous autobiography of Johnson the man."- Herbert M. Rosenthal. |
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