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Samuel Johnson Biography Spin-Off To Be Published By Penguin?

First Posted: 05/05/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 04:45 PM ET

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

Books rights to The Other Life of Samuel Johnson were recently acquired by Penguin, which appears to have cornered the market on classics gone wild. As print-ad tag-line for their series of resurrected classics, Pengiun exclaims, with a demented glee usually associated with Dr. Victor Frankenstein, "They're alive! Alive!"

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