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The most complete edition ever published of the iconic Biography WIDELY REGARDED as the finest literary biography ever published, James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnsonreveals a man of outsized appetites and private vulnerabilities, and is the source of much of what we know about one of the towering figures of English literature. This new edition collates and corrects the textual inaccuracies of previous versions, returning to the original manuscript in order to present a definitive edition of this landmark text.

James Boswell (1740-û1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author, best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson.

David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of English at Oxford and the editor of the Penguin Classics edition of Edward Gibbon-'s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Chronologies
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the Text
The Life of Samuel Johnson	p. 1
Selected Variants in the First Three Editions	p. 1007
Selected MS Variants	p. 1014
Notes	p. 1019
Index of Subjects	p. 1073
Index of Places	p. 1095
Index of Literary Works and Characters	p. 1101
Biographical Index: Johnson	p. 1110
Biographical Index: Boswell	p. 1127
Biographical Index: Others	p. 1134
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

The Life of Samuel Johnson

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