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saMuel johnson
1709 – 1784, english
A Dictionary of the English Language
An Anthology
Selected, Edited, and with an Introduction
by David Crystal
Samuel Johnson’s best-known work, A
Dictionary of the English Language (1755),
is the most influential and idiosyncratic
lexicon ever written and was used by such
notable authors as Jane Austen, Charles
Dickens, and Oscar Wilde. This anthology
includes 4,000 of the most representative,
entertaining, and historically fascinating
entries.
704 pp. 978-0-14-144157-3 $20.00
The History of Rasselas,
Prince of Abyssinia
Edited with an Introduction by
Paul Goring
The pilgrimage of Rasselas from Abyssinia
to Egypt is used as a vehicle for Johnson’s
musings on such wide-ranging subjects
as flying machines, poetry, marriage, and
madness.
192 pp. 978-0-14-143970-3 $12.00
Selected Essays
Edited with an Introduction by
David Womersley
Tackling ethical questions—such as the
importance of self-knowledge, awareness
of mortality, the role of the novel, and,
in a lighter vein, marriage, sleep, and
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deceit—these brilliant and thoughtprovoking
essays are a mirror of the time
in which they were written and a testament
to Johnson’s stature as the leading man of
letters of his age.
576 pp. 978-0-14-043627-3 $17.00
saMuel johnson
1709 – 1784, english
jaMes bosWell
1740 – 1795, scottish
A Journey to the Western Islands
of Scotland/The Journal of a
Tour to the Hebrides
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Peter Levi
The remarkable friendship between
Johnson and Boswell is celebrated in these
complementary journals written during
their tour of Scotland in 1773. Abridged.
272 pp. 978-0-14-043221-3 $18.00
See James Boswell.
john oF joinville
c. 1224 – 1317, French
geoFFrey oF villehardouin
c. 1150 – c. 1218, French
*Chronicles of the Crusades
Translated by Caroline Smith
Originally composed in Old French,
these two chronicles offer some of
the most vivid and reliable accounts
of the Crusades from a Western
perspective. Villehardouin’s Conquest
of Constantinople, distinguished by its
simplicity and lucidity, recounts the
controversial Fourth Crusade. In Life of
Saint Louis, Joinville draws on his close
attachment to King Louis IX of France to
recall his campaigning in the Holy Land.
384 pp. 978-0-14-044998-3 $16.00
See The Portable Medieval Reader.