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A Handbook devoted to the work of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), organized in three sections that study Johnson's career, his major and lesser-known works, and the subjects that were most important to him as a writer, thinker, and moralist.

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Volume 24 features commentary on a range of Johnsonian topics: his reaction to Milton, his relation to the Allen family, his notes in his edition of Shakespeare, his use of Oliver Goldsmith in his Dictionary, and his always fascinating Nachleben. The volume also includes articles on topics of strong interest to Johnson: penal reform, Charlotte Lennox's professional literary career, and the "conjectural history" of Homer in the eighteenth century.

In the most comprehensive, up-to-date account of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, a team of leading experts surveys the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity. They provide a systematic overview, and restore these poetic works to a position of centrality in modern criticism.

As leader of the unit dubbed The Majestic Twelve, the author led his team on what some might call the most dangerous duty in the Iraq War--convoy escort. Lynch tells how he formed and commanded his all-volunteer unit.

BRAGG V1The first three, powerhouse novels in Jack Lynch's Edgar Award-nominated and two-time Shamus Award-nominated Bragg series. Private investigator Peter Bragg learns that The Dead Never Forget when he's hired by a retired mobster to find out who is threatening his eleven-year-old daughter. Bragg's relentless search for The Missing and the Dead pits him against a brilliant serial killer obsessed with the expressions of death on his victim'...

Desperate men with nothing to lose make one last demand. Get Peter Bragg.SPEAK FOR THE DEADThe Shamus Award-nominated fifth novel in Jack Lynch's Edgar-Award-nominated series of detective novels.An escape attempt at San Quentin goes to hell, a guard is beaten into a coma, and the hard-core convicts retreat to a corner of the prison with their hostages, including two civilian women. It's a deadly stand-off...a bloody powder-keg ready to explode...

A psychic Peter Bragg once saved from suicide has seen her future... death at the hands of a serial killer... and turns to Bragg to save her life again. As one corpse after another is unearthed in the woods of Jack London State Park, Bragg teams up with a Sheriff's detective in a race against time, and perhaps fate, to hunt down a killer stalking the nightmare landscape of the psychic's visions and the dark, deadly streets of San Francisco.

The seventh novel in the multiple Shamus and Edgar Award nominated Bragg seriesSomeone is trying to scare Benny Bartlett, a freelance writer in Seattle into leaving the Jet City...and he has no clue why. It starts with threatening phone calls but escalates into gunfire. The police won't help, despite clear evidence of attempted murder, so Benny calls his old friend Bragg, who returns to his hometown to get answers. But he soon has to face his ...

The sixth novel in the multiple Shamus and Edgar Award nominated Bragg series that placed Jack Lynch among the masters of detective fiction. Bragg runs into Jo Sommers, a woman he longed for many years ago...and who is now unhappily married. Hour's later, she's accused of murdering her husband. Bragg agrees to help prove that Jo is innocent, discovering a tangled web of blackmail, extortion, and murder, stretching forty years into the past...t...

THE MISSING AND THE DEAD The Edgar Award nominated second thriller in the Bragg series of novels puts Jack Lynch in the same league as Robert B. Parker, Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross MacDonald. "Bragg is authentic, gripping, gritty." San Francisco Examiner Private eye Peter Bragg's relentless search for a missing insurance investigator unearths shocking secrets involving embezzled money, the disappearance of a cop, ...

PIECES OF DEATHThe Shamus Award-nominated, action-packed third thriller in the Bragg series of private eye novels that propelled author Jack Lynch into the league of detective fiction legends alongside Sue Grafton, Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross MacDonald."Bragg is authentic, gripping, gritty." San Francisco ExaminerPeter Bragg goes to San Francisco International Airport to protect a man arriving with a valuable...

This is the action-packed novel that launched Jack Lynch's Edgar Award and two-time Shamus Award-nominated Bragg series...vaulting him into the pantheon of detective fiction masters alongside Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton, Dashiell Hammett, Robert B. Parker and Ross MacDonald."Tough, taut and terse... literate without being lofty, not unlike the work of Hammett himself." The Thrilling DetectiveKorean War vet and ex-reporter Peter Bragg is hire...

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