The other great book by the man who wrote the dictionary: This is Dr. Johnson's beautiful, engaging, and ultimately inspiring story of a royal brother and sister who escape the castle and, travelling in disguise, search for a way to feel more useful to society.

It leads to a years-long adventure amongst poor people and rich men, great intellectuals and merchants, holy men and ruthless warriors. It is an eye-opening experience that shakes the siblings to their core and ultimately turns into the most sublimely wise and moving works that Johnson ever wrote, not to mention a masterpiece of English Literature.

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The Eternal Husband

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A Sleep and a Forgetting

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The Touchstone

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How The Two Ivans Quarrelled

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

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Freya of the Seven Isles

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The Lifted Veil

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A Simple Heart

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First Love

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Mathilda

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The Coxon Fund

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May Day

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