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Samuel Johnson: A Biography
Peter Martin
Belknap Press
Belknap Press
Bewigged, muscular and for his day unusually tall, adorned in soiled, rumpled clothes, beset by involuntary tics, opinionated, powered in his conversation by a prodigious memory and intellect, Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) was in his life a...
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Samuel Johnson: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
Samuel Johnson
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell, the subject of one of the most famous English...
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Evelina (Oxford World's Classics)
Frances Burney
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine's entry into society, womanhood...
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Pride and Prejudice (Unabridged Classics in Audio)
Jane Austen
Tantor Media
Tantor Media
Pride and Prejudice captures the affections of class-conscious eighteenth-century English families with matrimonial aims and rivalries. Jane Austena (TM)s radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue,...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: An Anthology (Penguin Classics)
Samuel Johnson
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
Surprising, colorful, and long-forgotten entries from the most famous dictionary in the history of the English language Samuel Johnsons best-known work, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), is the most influential and idiosyncratic...
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The Portable Edmund Burke (The Viking Portable Library)
Edmund Burke
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
The most comprehensive one-volume edition of Burke's writings on politics, history, and culture. The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson (Everyman's Library)
James Boswell
Everyman's Library
Everyman's Library
James Boswell is for some the ideal scribe, for others a sycophantic toady. Edmund Wilson, for example, memorably labeled him "a vain and pushing diarist." Boswell can even be seen as someone unconsciously intent on undermining his idol in...
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The Italian (Penguin Classics)
Ann Radcliffe
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
The haughty, manipulative Marchesa, determined to thwart the romance between her son, the young Neapolitan nobleman Vincentio di Vivaldi, and Elena di Rosalba, has enlisted the help of the villainous, scheming monk, Schedoni. With a livid paleness...
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The Man of Feeling (Oxford World's Classics)
Henry Mackenzie
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which sentiment and sensibility were allied with true virtue, and sensitivity is the mark of the man of feeling. The hero, Harley, is followed in a series...
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