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English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
Also known as: Doctor Johnson, Dr. Johnson, Great Moralist, Сэмюэл Джонсон, صمويل جونسون, 새뮤얼 존슨
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- The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1833)
- A dictionary of the English language (1819)
- A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1925)
- A study of the short story (1913)
- Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae