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An edition of The rambler: in four volumes. (1750)

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The Rambler was a British essay periodical edited and principally written by Samuel Johnson. A total of 208 issues were published from 1750-1752, on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Essay periodicals were a lot like 21st century blogs, in that each issue was written by a single person, on whatever topic struck his/her fancy. The Rambler was more serious than some other essay periodicals, and was not a great commercial success on first publication. It discussed various subjects including morality, literature, society, politics, and religion.

The Rambler has been reprinted many times, because it represents the finest writing of one of the greatest 18th century English prose stylists. Samuel Johnson is more often quoted than any other English author except Shakespeare.

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Dent, Dutton
Language
English
Pages
304

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Subjects
essay, essays, periodicals, morality, literature, English literature, politics, religion, society, Criticism, Social life and customs
People
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Places
England, London
Times
1750-1752, 18th century

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London, New York

Edition Notes

A selection of essays from the 10th ed. in 1784.

Series
Everyman's library,, 994., Essays & belles-lettres

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
824.63
Library of Congress
AC1 .E8 no. 994

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 304 p.
Number of pages
304

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6138357M
Internet Archive
rambler0000john
LCCN
53013003
OCLC/WorldCat
5763963
Library Thing
723670

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