| Page | | PREFACE | vii | | JOHNSON'S WORLD | 1 | | THE BOY | | | School Days | 3 | | Oxford and after | 9 | | THE ADVENTURER IN LITERATURE | | | Johnson comes to London | 18 | | The Great Lexicographer | 25 | | The Great Cham of Literature | 33 | | THE MAN | | | Johnson's Household | 43 | | His daily Life | 53 | | His Clubs | 62 | | THE SOCIAL FRIEND | | | Enter Boswell | 70 | | More about Boswell | 78 | | David Garrick | 87 | | Oliver Goldsmith | 94 | | Sir Joshua Reynolds | 103 | | Bennet Langton and Topham Beauclerk | 110 | | Mrs Thrale | 115 | | Fanny Burney | 124 | | THE TRAVELLER | | | The Tour to the Hebrides | 127 | | Lesser Journeys | 141 | | THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN | 149 | | BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE | 156 |
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