The book "Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Doctor of Laws" is a unique testimony about the life and personality of the outstanding writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson. In these anecdotes, Hester Lynch Piozzi, a longtime friend of Johnson's, reveals him not only as a great man of letters, but also as a man with his most refined features and flaws. In authentic stories, characterized by humor and satire, the author tells about the last twenty years of Johnson's life, his exceptional abilities and unique character. This book will help the reader to better understand the inner world of one of the greatest literary figures of English literature of the 18th century.