Meyers Samuel Johnson

The Struggle
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-904915-50-8
Verlag: Southbank Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten

Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition. Johnson was famous as a poet, novelist, biographer, essayist, critic, editor, lexicographer, conversationalist and larger than life personality. After nine years of work Johnson's, 'A dictionary of the English Language, was published in 1755. He overcame great adversity to achieve success. 'The Struggle' is a masterful portrait of a brilliant and tormented figure.

Jeffrey Meyers is an inexaustable eclectic writer and one of the foremost literary biographers of our time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meyers, Jeffrey