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Publié au début de l'année 1759, quelques semaines après le Candide de Voltaire, ce conte philosophique du pieux anglican Docteur Johnson (1709-1784) attira l'attention du public par sa similarité de composition avec la brillante satire du malicieux déiste français....

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Publié au début de l'année 1759, quelques semaines après le Candide de Voltaire, ce conte philosophique du pieux anglican Docteur Johnson (1709-1784) attira l'attention du public par sa similarité de composition avec la brillante satire du ...

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Parution : 2015-01-01

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Télécharger le livre :  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: A Quick Read edition
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Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 5 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 25 minutes "A Journey to the Western...

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Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 3 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 41 minutes "The History of Rasselas,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Heroes Next Door
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When Samuel Johnson unicycled around Australia, he met some awesome people. And before we had to lock down, he and his other sister, Hilde, were travelling the country talking at schools, community groups and at the side of busy streets to spread their message about how...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2020-10-27

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Télécharger le livre :  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-10-22

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In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland...

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Télécharger le livre :  Dear Santa
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If you could ask Santa for absolutely anything, what would you ask for? Samuel Johnson OAM, Australia's favourite skylarker, brother and determined cancer vanquisher, has asked his friends and supporters (who just happen to be some of Australia's best writers, comics,...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2018-11-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Consolation in the Face of Death
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In his moving essay, Samuel Johnson offers wise words on confronting grief at the loss of a loved one. The other pieces here, ranging from art to marriage to morality, demonstrate the brilliance, perception and wit that made Johnson the leading man of letters of his...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2009-08-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
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'What then is to be done? said Rasselas; the more we inquire, the less we can resolve.' Rasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the 'happy valley' in order to make their 'choice of life'. By witnessing the misfortunes and miseries of others they may come...

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Parution : 2009-06-11

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'What then is to be done? said Rasselas; the more we inquire, the less we can resolve.' Rasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the 'happy valley' in order to make their 'choice of life'. By witnessing the misfortunes and miseries of others they may come...

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Parution : 2009-06-11

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Télécharger le livre :  The Lives of the Poets
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'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in...

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Parution : 2009-05-28

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Télécharger le livre :  The Lives of the Poets
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'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in...

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Parution : 2009-05-28

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Télécharger le livre :  The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
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Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah, and the much-travelled philosopher Imlac. Their journey takes them to Egypt, where they study the various conditions of men's lives, before...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-09-27

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Télécharger le livre :  A Dictionary of the English Language: an Anthology
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words, been so thorough in its definitions, or illustrated usage by quoting from...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson's descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade, and agriculture of a society that was new...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-01-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Selected Essays
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This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the distinctive prose style that established him as a public figure. Also...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2003-02-27

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