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:
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.
- No known online texts of the complete work
- Preface [HC]
- HTML (4 pages) at Bartleby.com
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Poems (c. 1750-80?) [HC]
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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).
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The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) [HTR]
- HTML (Single page, 19KB) at Jack Lynch's Samuel Johnson page
- HTML (Single page, 24KB) at Rensacence Editions
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