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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language - Hardcover
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Presents 3,100 selections from Samuel Johnson's original dictionary, including passages on a variety of subjects, words found in Shakespeare's works, and his early plan for an English dictionary.
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About the Author
Jack Lynch is a professor of English at Rutgers University and a Johnson scholar, having studied the great lexicographer for nearly a decade. He is the author of The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson (Cambridge University Press) and the editor of A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1986-1998. He has also written journal articles and scholarly reviews addressing Johnson and the eighteenth century.
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- PublisherWalker & Co
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0802714218
- ISBN 13 9780802714213
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages600
- EditorLynch Jack
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