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100			_aMartin, Peter
245			_aSamuel Johnson: a biography / _cPeter Martin
260			_aLondon: _bWeidenfeld & Nicolson, _c2008.
300			_axviii, 522 p., [24] p. of plates: _bcol. ill., maps; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aPART I: STAFFORDSHIRE YOUTH 1 Anecdotes of Beggary 2 Stepping on the Duckling 3 Leaping over the Rail 4 Two Benefactors PART II: DESPONDENCY AND HOPE 5 Oxford: Wielding a Scholar s Weapon 6 Horrible Imaginings 7 Stirrings in Birmingham 8 Taking a Wife PART III: SLOW RISES WORTH 9 Stranger in London 10 Sons of Misery: Finding Richard Savage 11 'Slow Rises Worth by Poverty Depress'd' 12 Wandering in the Midlands PART IV: TRIUMPH: THE DICTIONARY YEARS 13 London Revived: A Lion in Harness 14 A Lifeline: the Dictionary 15 Poetic Interludes 16 Tetty and Amorous propensities' 17 The Triumph of the Moralist 18 Darkness Falls 19 Once More Unto the Breach: Back to the Dictionary PART V: DEPRESSION, SHAKESPEARE, TRAVEL AND ANGER 20 Stalled 21 'Suffering Chimeras' 22 'Vain and Corrupt Imaginations' 23 Boswell and Mrs Thrale 24 Shakespeare and the Living World 25 Coliseum of Beasts 26 Back to Shakespeare and the Dictionary 27 The Road to the Hebrides 28 Politics and Travel PART VI BIOGRAPHY AND 'THE RACE WITH DEATH 29 'A Very Poor Creeper Upon the Earth' 30 Biographical Straitjacket 31 Losing Ground 32 The Last Days
650			_aAuthors, English _x18th Century _xBiography
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