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Samuel Johnson

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Rasselas, Poems and Selected Prose (Rinehart Editio …

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A Dictionary of the English Language: An Anthology

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A Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM

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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: A Modern Selection

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The major works

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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland is a travel narrative by Samuel Johnson about an eighty-three-day journey through Scotland, in particular the islands of the Hebrides, in the late summer and autumn of 1773. The sixty-three-year-old Johnson was accompanied by his thirty-two-year-old friend of many years …

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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, originally titled The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale, though often abbreviated to Rasselas, is an apologue about happiness by Samuel Johnson. The book's original working title was "The Choice of Life". He wrote the piece in only one week to help pay the costs of his mother's …