Life of Samuel Johnson

Description

Originally published in 1791, this biography of English writer, Samuel Johnson, has been described as the greatest biography ever written. Differing from others in that era, it contained not just a record of Johnson's public life, but instead painted a vivid portrait of him, and included extensive reports of Johnson's conversation. This edition is an abridged version edited by Charles Grosvenor Osgood.Note: there were no chapters in the main body of the text, so I added some arbitrary ones to break the text up a little bit.

Part of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World set.

This book has 539 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1791; this edition, 1917.

Production notes: This ebook of Life of Samuel Johnson was published by Global Grey in 2020.