The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson's Guide to Life by Henry Hitchings

The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson's Guide to Life

Henry Hitchings

320 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

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Dr Johnson was a dazzling conversationalist, a polymath and a moralist, whose intellectual and social curiosity were boundless. Yet he was also a deeply melancholy man, haunted by dark thoughts, sickness and a diseased imagination. In his own life...

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