Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more (Mobi Collected Works) Review

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Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more (Mobi Collected Works) ReviewI'm not interested in reviewing the works of Samuel Johnson, I think they themselves are splendid. But this electronic edition is really poorly organized. The description says, "This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices." That couldn't be further from the truth. This edition is drawn from an old, unidentified print edition of SJ's works, and adheres to the volume organization there, rather than taking advantage of the electronic format to organize them more properly. Secondly, the electronic table of contents is alphabetical, leading to some important non sequiturs. The title of the first volume in the set, "The Adventurer and the Idler," would lead you to think that all his Adventurer essays are within that volume. It's not until you scroll into the 'R' volumes that you realize that the first essays from his Adventurer series are in a volume titled "The Rambler and the Adventurer." There was no need to split the Adventurer essays across two volumes as they are here, nor the Ramblers into three, nor the Lives of the Poets into four volumes.
What also is missing is the Sermons he ghost wrote. They are of significant importance, and their absence suggests that the electronic edition comes from an edition published before Johnson's authorship of those sermons was known (so maybe this is an early 19th C edition?) Also missing is an extremely important poem, "London," as well as his political pamphlets from the 1770's. (There's more to list that's absent, but you get the idea.)
I'd have gladly paid ten times this edition's price for something more complete and better organized.
UPDATE: I originally gave this one star. But it's even worse than I thought. If you click on a volume of Rambler essays, you might expect a table of contents letting you navigate to each specific essay. No: it's one long stream. And without a TOC you can't tell what's there and what's missing. There are 208 Rambler essays, originally, but if nos. 1-105 are here I can't find them. And if they're missing that's half the set. Does this matter? The Ramblers are on of his greatest works.Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more (Mobi Collected Works) OverviewThis collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography. Table of Contents Samuel Johnson BiographyNovella :: Biographies :: Essays :: Play :: PoetryNovellaRasselas, Prince of Abyssinia 1759BiographiesLives of the Poets (Addison, Savage, Swift, Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope, Waller, Milton Cowley, King, Halifax, Parnell, Garth, Rowe, Gay, Tickell, Somervile, Thomson, Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young, Mallet, Akenside, Gray, Lyttelton) 1779-81Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies 1765Preface to Shakespeare 1765Essays and periodicalsThe Adventurer 1753-54The Idler 1758-60The Rambler 1750-52A Grammar of the English TongueA Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 1775Parlimentary Debates IParlimentary Debates II Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language 1755PlayIrene: A Historical TragedyPoetryLondon 1738Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane and other poemsThe Vanity of Human Wishes 1749

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