Great Books and Classics - Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

All links verified on or after March 16, 2017

List of Works
[Dictionary] [The Lives of the Poets] [The Plays of William Shakespeare] [Poems] [The Prince of Abyssinia] [Rasselas] [The Vanity of Human Wishes]

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Dictionary (1755) [HTR,HC]
The Harvard Classics only included the Preface to this work.

No known online texts of the complete work
Preface
- HTML (3 pages) at Bartleby.com
- HTML (Single page, 66 KB) at Jack Lynch's Samuel Johnson page
The Plan of an English Dictionary (in a letter to Lord Chesterfield, 1747)
- HTML (Single page, 52 KB) at Jack Lynch's Samuel Johnson page
Available at Amazon.Com:
Hardcover edition (Intl Book Centre, 1978).
CD-ROM edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, 1996).

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The Lives of the Poets (1781) [HTR,HC]

Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) edition in two volumes at Project Gutenberg:
- Volume 1
- Volume 2
Available at Amazon.Com:
Hardcover edition (Bibliolife, 2008, 164 pg).

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The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765) [HC]
The Harvard Classics only included the Preface to this work.

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Poems (c. 1750-80?) [HC]

On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet [HC]
- HTML (Single page, 87 KB) at Bartleby.com
A Satire [HC]
- HTML (Single page, 83 KB) at Bartleby.com

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The Prince of Abyssinia (or, Rasselas) (1759) [HTR]

HTML (49 pages, indexed) at Jack Lynch's Samuel Johnson page
Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg

Available at Amazon.com: (This site earns a commission on purchases made via these links)
Paperback edition (Oxford Univ Pr, 2009).