bookshelves: essays, philosophy, nonfiction, published-2007, winter-20132014, tbr-busting-2014, sciences, fraudio Read from January 03 to 05, 2014 The Portable Atheist read by Nicolas Ballanthology of atheist writing through the ages.1. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens2. Lucretius: from the N...
This is an abridgment of Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, which as it is runs to over 500 pages. I am glad I read it, but I’m also glad I read an abridgment (an ebook downloaded for free from The Gutenberg Project). In the preface the editor tells us he “omitted most of Boswell’s criticisms, commen...
bookshelves: biography, fraudio, nonfiction, play-dramatisation, published-1790, georgian1714-1830, dodgy-narrator, britain-england, amusing, teh-brillianz Read in September, 2009 ** spoiler alert ** Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of James Boswell's biography of Samuel Johnson, to celebrate the 3...
Okay, this is probably close enough to the edition I read on DailyLit. I understand and appreciate this biography's historical import in terms of the way biographies are constructed, just as I appreciate the ways in which Proust, Joyce, Stein, and Woolf altered the shape and focus of the novel. Howe...
Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of James Boswell's biography of Samuel Johnson, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Johnson's birth.Samuel Johnson ...... Kenneth CranhamJames Boswell ...... Paul HigginsKing George ...... David HargreavesLouisa ...... Lizzy WattsJoshua Reynolds ...... Matt AddisOlive...
Greatest biography written bar none. Captures the nature of the man better than anything since. I wouldn't call it the best model for writing a biography, but it still is the finest one ever written. Never surpassed.
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