THE WORLD IN 38 CHAPTERS, OR DR JOHNSON'S GUIDE TO LIFE

The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnsons Guide to Life is a source of profound good sense about what it means to teach, re ad, write and travel. More than that, though, Henry Hitchings continually translates Samuel Johnson's experience of poverty, scorn, pain and madness into a rich understanding of how to be.Samuel Johnson was a critic, an essayist, a poet and a biographer. He was al so, famously, the compiler of the first good English dictionary, published in 1755. A polymath and a great conversationalist, his in tellectual...[Read more]