Frances Wilson

Lessons from the Great Cham

Wracked by self-disgust, Johnson is not an obvious self-help guide. But he has much to teach us — including about how not to act or think

  • The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters, or Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life

    Henry Hitchings

    Macmillan, pp. 354

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