The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order, a series of his epistolary correspondence and converstations with many eminent persons and various original pieces of his composition
by:
James Boswell (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
2940021531788 (0021531781)
Publisher: London T. Cadell and W. Davies
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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