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Martin, Peter

 
9780753825921: Samuel Johnson: A Biography
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0753825929 ISBN 13: 9780753825921
Verlag: Orion Publishing Group, 2009

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Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. This new biography illuminates the unknown Johnson: the awkward youth, the unsuccessful schoolmaster, the eccentric marriage, his early years in London in the 1740s scratching a living, the epic struggle to produce the Dictionary. Using material unknown to previous biographers, Peter Martin describes the psychological knife-edge on which Johnson felt he lived, caused by his severe melancholia and his physical diseases. The Samuel Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable and sympathetic figure than the one that Boswell so memorably portrayed.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Martin was born in Argentina of English parents and educated there and in the US. He has taught English literature on both sides of the Atlantic and written extensively on 18th-century British and American literature and culture. He divides his time between Spain and a house in West Sussex.

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Verlag
Orion Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0753825929
ISBN 13 
9780753825921
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
544
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