The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author | : James Boswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1826 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
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Author | : James Boswell |
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Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1826 |
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Author | : James Boswell |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1979-08-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780140431162 |
The most celebrated English biography is a group portrait in which extraordinary man paints the picture of a dozen more At the centre of a brilliant circle which included Burke, Reynolds, Garrick, Fanny Burney and even George III, Boswell captures the powerful, troubled and witty figure of Samuel Johnson, who towers above them all. Yet this is also an intimate picture of domestic life, which mingles the greatest talkers of a talkative age with the hero's humbler friends in a picture which is, before all things, humane. As a young man about London, James Boswell was obsessed by literature, and, on a fateful day in 1763, he attached himself with unswerving tenacity to the dominant literary figure of his age—the splendidly rotund, articulate, and humane Dr Samuel Johnson. What followed was the most famous of friendships between writers and the bais for the remarkable documentation contained in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, the greatest and most compelling of all biographies. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author | : James Boswell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 1540 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : 9780192835314 |
This complete and unabridged edition is the only complete critical edition in paperback. Samuel Johnson was a poet, essayist, dramatist, and pioneering lexicographer, but his continuing reputation depends less on his literary output than on the fortunate accident of finding an idealbiographer in James Boswell. As Johnson's constant and admiring companion, Boswell was able to record not only the outward events of his life, but also the humour, wit, and sturdy common sense of his conversation. His brilliant portrait of a major literary figure of the eighteenth century,enriched by historical and social detail, remains a monument to the art of biography.
Author | : James Boswell |
Publisher | : Prabhat Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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In making this abridgement of Boswell's Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell's criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson's opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell's day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common enough, I dare say, among its devotees, of opening the book of random, and reading wherever the eye falls upon a passage of especial interest. All such passages, I hope, have been retained, and enough of the whole book to illustrate all the phases of Johnson's mind and of his time which Boswell observed.
Author | : Adam Sisman |
Publisher | : HarperPerennial |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Authors, Scottish |
ISBN | : 9780007234295 |
With great wit, Sisman here tells the story of Boswell's presumptuous task--the making of the greatest biography of all time. Sisman traces the friendship between Boswell and Samuel Johnson, his mentor, and provides a fascinating account of Boswell's seven-year struggle to write "The Life of Samuel Johnson."
Author | : James Boswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
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Author | : James Boswell |
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Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1820 |
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Author | : Peter Martin |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 2002-04-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780300093124 |
"Born in Edinburgh, the 'Athens of the North', a Scot who hated living in Scotland and nourished a lifelong love affair with London, Boswell was biographer, journalist, laird, advocate, social lion, incurable rake, lover, life of the party, traveller, steadfast friend, endearing charmer, exhibitionist fool, and drunken sot. In this moving biography, Peter Martin assesses Boswell's literary achievements and uncovers the pulsating and dynamic world he thrived in, from the royal courts and the drawing rooms of fashionable ladies and gentlemen to the fleshpots of London's unsavoury underworld and the chambers of the insane. He also poignantly reveals a man in agony, easily misunderstood, relentlessly plagued by hypochondria or melancholia, buffeted like a straw in the wind by a multitude of anxieties and 'horrible imaginings'."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : James Boswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1799 |
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Author | : James Boswell |
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Release | : 1799 |
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