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Samuel Johnson: a biography / Peter Martin

By: Martin, PeterMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008Description: xviii, 522 p., [24] p. of plates: col. ill., maps; 25 cmISBN: 9780297607199Subject(s): Authors, English -- 18th Century -- BiographyDDC classification: 920

Contents:

PART I: STAFFORDSHIRE YOUTH 1 Anecdotes of Beggary 2 Stepping on the Duckling 3 Leaping over the Rail 4 Two Benefactors PART II: DESPONDENCY AND HOPE 5 Oxford: Wielding a Scholar s Weapon 6 Horrible Imaginings 7 Stirrings in Birmingham 8 Taking a Wife PART III: SLOW RISES WORTH 9 Stranger in London 10 Sons of Misery: Finding Richard Savage 11 'Slow Rises Worth by Poverty Depress'd' 12 Wandering in the Midlands PART IV: TRIUMPH: THE DICTIONARY YEARS 13 London Revived: A Lion in Harness 14 A Lifeline: the Dictionary 15 Poetic Interludes 16 Tetty and Amorous propensities' 17 The Triumph of the Moralist 18 Darkness Falls 19 Once More Unto the Breach: Back to the Dictionary PART V: DEPRESSION, SHAKESPEARE, TRAVEL AND ANGER 20 Stalled 21 'Suffering Chimeras' 22 'Vain and Corrupt Imaginations' 23 Boswell and Mrs Thrale 24 Shakespeare and the Living World 25 Coliseum of Beasts 26 Back to Shakespeare and the Dictionary 27 The Road to the Hebrides 28 Politics and Travel PART VI BIOGRAPHY AND 'THE RACE WITH DEATH 29 'A Very Poor Creeper Upon the Earth' 30 Biographical Straitjacket 31 Losing Ground 32 The Last Days

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	920 MAR/S (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		p13032

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I:
STAFFORDSHIRE YOUTH
1 Anecdotes of Beggary
2 Stepping on the Duckling
3 Leaping over the Rail
4 Two Benefactors

PART II:
DESPONDENCY AND HOPE
5 Oxford: Wielding a Scholar s Weapon
6 Horrible Imaginings
7 Stirrings in Birmingham
8 Taking a Wife

PART III:
SLOW RISES WORTH
9 Stranger in London
10 Sons of Misery: Finding Richard Savage
11 'Slow Rises Worth by Poverty Depress'd'
12 Wandering in the Midlands

PART IV:
TRIUMPH: THE DICTIONARY YEARS
13 London Revived: A Lion in Harness
14 A Lifeline: the Dictionary
15 Poetic Interludes
16 Tetty and Amorous propensities'
17 The Triumph of the Moralist
18 Darkness Falls
19 Once More Unto the Breach: Back to the Dictionary

PART V:
DEPRESSION, SHAKESPEARE, TRAVEL AND ANGER
20 Stalled
21 'Suffering Chimeras'
22 'Vain and Corrupt Imaginations'
23 Boswell and Mrs Thrale
24 Shakespeare and the Living World
25 Coliseum of Beasts
26 Back to Shakespeare and the Dictionary
27 The Road to the Hebrides
28 Politics and Travel

PART VI
BIOGRAPHY AND 'THE RACE WITH DEATH
29 'A Very Poor Creeper Upon the Earth'
30 Biographical Straitjacket
31 Losing Ground
32 The Last Days

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