Martin, Peter <br/><br/>
Samuel Johnson: a biography / 
Peter Martin 
 - London:  Weidenfeld & Nicolson,  2008. 
 - xviii, 522 p., [24] p. of plates:  col. ill., maps;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>PART I:<br/>STAFFORDSHIRE YOUTH<br/>1 Anecdotes of Beggary<br/>2 Stepping on the Duckling<br/>3 Leaping over the Rail<br/>4 Two Benefactors<br/><br/>PART II:<br/>DESPONDENCY AND HOPE<br/>5 Oxford: Wielding a Scholar s Weapon<br/>6 Horrible Imaginings<br/>7 Stirrings in Birmingham<br/>8 Taking a Wife<br/><br/>PART III:<br/>SLOW RISES WORTH<br/>9 Stranger in London<br/>10 Sons of Misery: Finding Richard Savage<br/>11 'Slow Rises Worth by Poverty Depress'd'<br/>12 Wandering in the Midlands<br/><br/>PART IV:<br/>TRIUMPH: THE DICTIONARY YEARS<br/>13 London Revived: A Lion in Harness<br/>14 A Lifeline: the Dictionary<br/>15 Poetic Interludes<br/>16 Tetty and Amorous propensities'<br/>17 The Triumph of the Moralist<br/>18 Darkness Falls<br/>19 Once More Unto the Breach: Back to the Dictionary<br/><br/>PART V:<br/>DEPRESSION, SHAKESPEARE, TRAVEL AND ANGER<br/>20 Stalled<br/>21 'Suffering Chimeras'<br/>22 'Vain and Corrupt Imaginations'<br/>23 Boswell and Mrs Thrale<br/>24 Shakespeare and the Living World<br/>25 Coliseum of Beasts<br/>26 Back to Shakespeare and the Dictionary<br/>27 The Road to the Hebrides<br/>28 Politics and Travel<br/><br/>PART VI<br/>BIOGRAPHY AND 'THE RACE WITH DEATH<br/>29 'A Very Poor Creeper Upon the Earth'<br/>30 Biographical Straitjacket<br/>31 Losing Ground<br/>32 The Last Days<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780297607199 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Authors, English--18th Century--Biography
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>920  / MAR/S