Christopher Hibbert

Samuel Johnson

A Personal History
Foreword by Henry Hitchings

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look of the fascinating writer Samuel Johnson.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 343g
• ISBN-13: 9780230614277
• ISBN-10: 0230614272
• Artikelnr.: 25930717

Autorenporträt

Christopher Hibbert; Foreword by Henry Hitchings

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Pimlico Edition - List of Illustrations - Author's Note - PART I: 1709-1755 - The Bookseller's Son - GruStreet - 'Poor Dear Tetty' - 'The Giant in his Den' - PART II: 1756-1764 - 'A New Wife' - Tea Cups and Dinner Plates - A Young Man from Edinburgh - The Turk's Head Oracle - PART III: 1765-1775 - New Friends and Old Rambles - Streatham Park - Scotland - Wales and France - PART IV: 1776-1784 - 'Whole Nests of People in his House' - Mr Wilkes and Mr Edwards - 'Formidable and Dangerous Distempers' - The Race with Death - Notes - Bibliography - Index -