Selected Essays

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Penguin Books Limited, Feb 27, 2003 - Fiction - 594 pages
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This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the distinctive prose style that established him as a public figure. Also included here is the best of Johnson's later journalism, including essays from the periodicals 'The Adventurer' and 'The Idler'.

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Samuel Johnson (1709-84) was an English poet, novelist, critic, lexicographer, biographer, and editor. But it was his essays that made him a dominant figure in 18th century English literary life.

David Womersley is a lecturer in English at Jesus College, Oxford. He edited the authoritative three-volume edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, as well as the one-volume abridged edition, for Penguin Classics.

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TitleSelected Essays
Penguin classics
AuthorSamuel Johnson
EditorDavid Womersley
ContributorDavid Womersley
Editionabridged, illustrated, reissue
PublisherPenguin Books Limited, 2003
ISBN0140436278, 9780140436273
Length594 pages
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