CONSOLATION IN THE FACE OF DEATH

In his moving essay, Samuel Johnson offers wise words on confronting grief at the loss of a loved one. The other pieces here, rangin g from art to marriage to morality, demonstrate the brilliance, perception and wit that made Johnson the leading man of letters of h is day, and one of the finest essayists in the English language.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have tra nsformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, o utraged,...[Read more]