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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
John Adams
1776
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D., with marginal comments and markings . . . by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
The Norton Anthology of Poetry
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
The Gates
Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763
Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
George vs. George: The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
A History of the English Language
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors {generic}
The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
Journals of the Western Islands of Scotland [and] The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Blind Justice
According to Queeney
Dr. Johnson's London: Coffee-Houses and Climbing Boys, Medicine, Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freakshows and Female Education
The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary
The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park
Growing Up Amish: A Memoir
The Life of Samuel Johnson [abridged]
The Infernals
The English Language
Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
Murder in Grub Street
The Story of English in 100 Words
Abigail Adams: A Life
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English
A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment
Samuel Johnson
The London Encyclopedia
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
Bedlam: London and its Mad
Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature
Samuel Johnson
From Dryden to Johnson
A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
A Dictionary of the English Language
The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
Casanova Was A Book Lover
Strange Bodies
Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage
Johnson's Dictionary: A Modern Selection
The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume 1 : The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century
The Creeps
Casanova
Nightwalking: a nocturnal history of London Chaucer to Dickens
Criticism: Major Statements
Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives Of Eccentric Scientists And Madmen
Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers
How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and his Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765
The Hardest Day: The Battle of Britain, 18 August 1940
Mustard Seed
Jonathan Swift
The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it
Do You Think You're Clever? The Oxford and Cambridge Questions
Midwinter
The Miracle of Language
Black London: Life Before Emancipation
Journals and Letters by Frances Burney
The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement
Hours in a Library
Fanny Burney: A Biography
Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America
Great Tales from English History Omnibus
The Age of Reason: (1700-1789)
1,000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts
Fighting Words: Writers Lambast Other Writers--from Aristotle to Anne Rice
Meeting Dr. Johnson
The Personal History of Samuel Johnson
Dr. Sam Johnson, Detector
Lord Stanhope's Proposal
The Portable Johnson & Boswell
Samuel Johnson: A Life
The Writer's Voice
Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson: The Struggle
Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature
Science Fiction Handbook, Revised
Holmes and Watson: A Miscellany
Who's Who in Early Hanoverian Britain, 1714-89
Once more, Miranda
England: 1000 Things You Need to Know
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 1 of 3
Samuel Johnson
Everybody's Boswell
The Detections of Dr. Sam: Johnson
Signers of the Constitution
The Achievement of Samuel Johnson
English Men and Manners in the 18th Century
Young Sam Johnson
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 2 of 3
Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing
A Walk to the Western Isles: After Boswell and Johnson
Gout: The Patrician Malady
The English Parnassus
The Return of Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector
The Exploits of Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector
English Literary Manuscripts
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 1 of 2
Radio Comedy
Shakespeare: His Life and Works
El año del verano que nunca llegó
Dr Johnson's Women
An Anthology of Pieces from Early Editions of Encyclopedia Britannica
A History of English Literature II: Literature of the English Renaissance 1485-1660
Dreads and Drolls
Samuel Johnson & his world
Principles of Textual Criticism
The development of modern English
Londoners' Larder: English Cuisine from Chaucer to Present
Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading
Doctor Johnson : a play
The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters. Vol. 1, 1955-56
Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster: Traveling through Scotland with Boswell and Johnson
Strange Tales, Volume I
Samuel Johnson; his friends and enemies
Samuel Johnson
English Essayists
The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography
Samuel Johnson: A Collection of Critical Essays
The Thrales of Streatham Park
The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters. Vol. 3, 1958
The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters. Vol. 2, 1956-57

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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), known as Dr. Johnson, was described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history." A journalist, essayist, novelist, biographer, literary critic, and moralist, also the author of one of the most influential dictionaries in the English language, published in 1755.

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