Book detail: The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.
As part of the authoritative Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, this volume collects the complete series of essays originally published under the title The Rambler during the mid-eighteenth century. The edition provides rigorously edited texts of these periodical writings, which explore a wide range of human concerns, including morality, daily life, literature, and society. It includes scholarly annotations, textual notes, and historical context to illuminate Johnson's prose style, vocabulary, and philosophical arguments. Intended for both general readers and academic study, the work preserves the intellectual depth and rhetorical precision of the original essays while providing modern critical apparatus to aid in their understanding.
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