Anecdotes of Johnson EasyRead Comfort EdReadHowYouWant.com, 2006 - 224 páginas Piozzi's markedly distinctive and colloquial style is illuminated in the memoir "Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson." It is an engaging study of an idiosyncratic persona. It captures a very different side of Johnson during the last twenty years of his life. The specific linguistic and stylistic features of the biography successfully capture the attention of the reader. |
Términos y frases comunes
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