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Köp båda 2 för 996 krThis definitive edition of the first full-length biography of Samuel Johnson should be in every library, available to anyone seeking information about this significant writer who has been deemed an 'icon of modern culture' . . . Anyone interested in Johnson or biography should make time to explore this volume. --Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer Hawkins's book gives us a remarkably clear, authentic, and durable picture of Johnson, 'warts and all, ' as viewed from the perspective of his lifelong friend, legal adviser, and, eventually, executor of his estate. I have found Professor Brack's work exemplary. After a long interval of years, we now have the advantage of the total text with an apparatus criticus designed by a seasoned and distinguished textual editor. --James Gray "author of Johnson's Sermons: A Study " Brack's new edition will for the foreseeable future form an important part of the scholarly arsenal of standard reference works of Johnson studies, especially concerning those details of Johnson's earlier life that Hawkins knew best. --New Rambler Brack's edition makes available the full text of Hawkins's pre-Boswellian biography, providing a detailed scholarly context for a work that has traditionally been viewed with suspicion, if not hostility, by Johnsonians. Yet Hawkins had known Johnson much longer than Boswell, and his elaborate and firsthand, if at times idiosyncratic, narrative valuably supplements more familiar accounts. --Roger Lonsdale "editor of the Oxford edition of Johnson's Lives of the Poets "
O M Brack, Jr., a professor of English literature emeritus at Arizona State University, is coauthor of Samuel Johnson's Early Biographers and coeditor of The Early Biographies of Samuel Johnson. He has edited volumes of the Works of Samuel Johnson published by Yale and is textual editor for the Georgia series the Works of Tobias Smollett. Brack is the curator of the 2009 Johnson tercentenary exhibition at the Huntington Library.