Product Description
The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life
Author: Henry Hitchings
Format: Paperback
Henry Hitchings turns the life of Samuel Johnson into a source of wisdom about teaching, reading, writing and travel, showing how Johnson transformed his own poverty, pain and melancholy into a rich understanding of how to live. Critic, essayist, poet, biographer and compiler of the first great English dictionary, Johnson was a boundlessly curious polymath yet a deeply troubled man who strove for a virtuous and prudent path.
Across thirty-eight chapters, his writings and aphorisms illuminate enduring questions of ambition, kindness, family, boredom, fame and the disorders of the mind, offering a humane lesson in the art of governing body and spirit.
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