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Samuel Johnson Books
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 6,930 ratings — published 1759
Historical Whodunits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.86 — 437 ratings — published 1993
The Life of Samuel Johnson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,402 ratings — published 1790
Lives of the Poets (Addison, Savage, Swift)
by (shelved 2 times as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 2006
The Lives of the Poets (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.06 — 109 ratings — published 1781
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,447 ratings — published 2019
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.87 — 286 ratings — published 2005
The Rambler (hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.18 — 61 ratings — published 1784
Discourses on Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.72 — 87 ratings — published 1888
The Pretended Asian: George Psalmanazar's Eighteenth-Century Formosan Hoax (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published 2004
The Itinerário of Jerónimo Lobo (Hakluyt Society, Second Series)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 1984
The Truth of the Christian Religion with Jean Le Clerc's Notes and Additions (Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.21 — 14 ratings — published 2010
William Law: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, The Spirit of Love (Classics of Western Spirituality)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.81 — 27 ratings — published 1978
Sex Before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918–1963 (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories, Series Number 16)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.77 — 44 ratings — published 2010
The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.69 — 100 ratings — published 2013
Amexica: War Along the Borderline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.87 — 649 ratings — published 2010
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.72 — 602 ratings — published 2001
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.89 — 416 ratings — published 2009
Once upon a Crime (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.71 — 17 ratings — published 1994
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.45 — 474 ratings — published 2015
Modernity Britain, 1957-63 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.36 — 179 ratings — published 2012
Edmund Burke: The First Conservative (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.90 — 535 ratings — published 2013
The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.72 — 805 ratings — published 2004
Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.65 — 74 ratings — published 2011
Disraeli or The Two Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.78 — 195 ratings — published 2013
Pushkin: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.80 — 390 ratings — published 2002
Time's Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.06 — 67 ratings — published 2012
Romany and Tom: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.15 — 310 ratings — published 2014
The Exploits of Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.95 — 22 ratings — published 1987
Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.69 — 198 ratings — published 2015
The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.99 — 484 ratings — published 2014
Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,011 ratings — published 2014
Bomber County: The Poetry of a Lost Pilot's War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.61 — 64 ratings — published 2010
Murder for Christmas - Volume 2 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.65 — 85 ratings — published 1988
Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.71 — 181 ratings — published 2010
Everest the First Ascent: How a Champion of Science Helped to Conquer the Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.09 — 356 ratings — published 2013
Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.40 — 127 ratings — published 2014
Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats – A Biography of Contradictions, Supernatural Spirits, and the Women Who Shaped His Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.89 — 105 ratings — published 1999
Untold Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,897 ratings — published 2005
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,877 ratings — published 2010
Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.47 — 62 ratings — published 2010
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.77 — 374 ratings — published 2015
Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.87 — 711 ratings — published 2012
Family Britain, 1951-1957 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.32 — 430 ratings — published 2009
Strindberg: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.12 — 72 ratings — published 2012
In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793–1815 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.04 — 294 ratings — published 2014
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,417 ratings — published 2022
The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.61 — 473 ratings — published 2009
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,934 ratings — published 2011
Bismarck: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as samuel-johnson)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,560 ratings — published 2011
“I met Mr. Sterling when he came to London to establish a branch of his shipping firm." She paused. "I never imagined I would someday be running it."
"You've done very well," Keir commented, before it occurred to him that it might seem presumptuous, offering praise to someone so far above him.
Lady Merritt seemed pleased, however. "Thank you. Especially for not finishing that sentence with '... for a woman,' the way most people do. It always reminds me of the Samuel Johnson quote about a dog walking on its hind legs: 'It's not done well, but one is surprised to find it done at all.”
― Devil in Disguise
"You've done very well," Keir commented, before it occurred to him that it might seem presumptuous, offering praise to someone so far above him.
Lady Merritt seemed pleased, however. "Thank you. Especially for not finishing that sentence with '... for a woman,' the way most people do. It always reminds me of the Samuel Johnson quote about a dog walking on its hind legs: 'It's not done well, but one is surprised to find it done at all.”
― Devil in Disguise
“He made two or three peculiar observations; as when shewn the botanical garden, 'Is not EVERY garden a botanical garden?”
― The Life of Samuel Johnson
― The Life of Samuel Johnson
