The Personal History of Samuel Johnson

by Christopher Hibbert (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1984

  $6.52

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.21

  Using material from Boswell's private papers, which he felt unable to divulge, this is a minutely-detailed portrait of Samuel Johnson, the father of English letters. It ranges from the eccentric schoolboy in Lichfield, to the Grub Street hack, and finally to the legendary figure of Fleet Street.