Reviews of book: 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

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 - Community Reviews back

by James Boswell

Lisa (Harmony) rated it

12 years ago

text A Great Portrait of an Age

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...

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Bettie's Books rated it

12 years ago

text The Life of Samuel Johnson

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...

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Bettie's Books rated it

16 years ago

text

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...

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Randolph "Dilda" Carter rated it

28 years ago

text The Life of Samuel Johnson (Everyman's Library)

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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