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The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume V: Appendices and Comprehensive Index
By (Author) Samuel Johnson
Edited by Bruce Redford
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
828.609
Hardback
192
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
539g
With these two volumes Princeton University Press concludes the first scholarly edition of the letters of Samuel Johnson to appear in forty years. Volume IV chronicles the last three years of Johnson's life, an epistolary endgame that includes the breakup of the friendship with Hester Thrale and a poignant reaching out to new friends and new experi