The Life of Samuel Johnson
The most complete edition ever published of the iconic BiographyWIDELY REGARDED as the finest literary biography ever published, James Boswell?s Life of Samuel Johnson reveals a man of outsized appetites and private vulnerabilities, and is the source of much of what we know about one of the...
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The most complete edition ever published of the iconic BiographyWIDELY REGARDED as the finest literary biography ever published, James Boswell?s Life of Samuel Johnson reveals a man of outsized appetites and private vulnerabilities, and is the source of much of what we know about one of the towering figures of English literature. This new edition collates and corrects the textual inaccuracies of previous versions, returning to the original manuscript in order to present a definitive edition of this landmark text.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140436624 (0140436626)
ASIN: 140436626
Publish date: November 19th 2008
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 408
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Classic Literature,
Biography Memoir,
18th Century
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...
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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