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The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1½ feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold for the huge price of £4/10s.
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In 1773, 63-year-old literary giant Samuel Johnson joined James Boswell, a 32-year-old Scottish...
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This is a volume of selected essays by "the great master of reason" Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The Adventurer and The Idler are included, covering a vast range of topics.
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In this enchanting fable (subtitled The Choice of Life), Rasselas and his retinue burrow their way out of the totalitarian paradise of the Happy Valley in search of that triad of eighteenth-century aspiration – life, liberty and happiness.
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Above all, Samuel Johnson's Rasselas (1759) is concerned with the nature of happiness.
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Rasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the "happy valley" in order to make their "choice of life".
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