4 minutes ago - ▶️▶️ COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK ▶️▶️ http://tinybit.cc/7d8b47c2 ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ <b>The first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature</b><br /><br />Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. Our view of Johnson has been overwhelmingly shaped by James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, published in 1791, the most famous biography in the English language. But invaluable as Boswell is as a source, he should not be the last word.<br /><br />This new biography illuminates the Johnson that Boswell never knew: the awkward youth, the unsuccessful schoolmaster, the eccentric marriage, his early years in London in the 1740s scratching a living, the epic struggle to produce the Dictionary. Very much the outsider, rather than the supremely confident dispenser of robust common sense.<br /><br />Using material unknown to previous biographers, Peter Martin describes the psychological kni