Anecdotes of JohnsonReadHowYouWant.com, 2006 - 240 páginas Piozziâe(tm)s markedly distinctive and colloquial style is illuminated in the memoir âeoeAnecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnsonâe . It is an engaging study of an idiosyncratic and self-absorbing 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. |
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