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Publication: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Publication Date: 17-SEP-09 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: the most likeable of all our literary heroes; SamUel JohnSon: a liFe by David Nokes (Faber, [pounds sterling]25).(Features)

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Byline: NICHOLAS LEZARD

From the definition in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary for the word "Superfluous": "more than enough; unnecessary; offensive by being more than sufficient." We don't, it has to be said, really need another biography of Johnson. Not even Boswell's was the first. Then again, it is the great man's 300th birthday tomorrow so you can't blame David Nokes, who has previously written biographies of Jonathan Swift and Jane Austen, for having a go at Johnson. As Boswell said, and as Nokes reminds us, the more we think about...

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