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Dr Johnson is one of the most admired - and quoted - figures in English literature. Yet, as this sympathetic and revealing biography makes clear, his ascent to eminence was far from easy. Against the exuberant backdrop of Georgian London, it chronicles the struggles of the half-blind young man from Lichfield, his rise to fame, the creation of his Dictionary, his love for Mrs Thrale, and his friendship with his Jamaican servant Francis Barber, the principal beneficiary of his will. 
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