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The Life of Samuel Johnson
Contributor(s): Boswell, James (Author), Hibbert, Christopher (Editor), Hibbert, Christopher (Introduction by)
ISBN: 0140431160     ISBN-13: 9780140431162
Publisher: Penguin Group
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 1979
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Annotation: Notoriously and self-confessedly intemperate, Boswell shared with Johnson a huge appetite for life and threw equal energy into recording its every aspect in minute but telling detail. This irrepressible Scotsman was 'always studying human nature and making experiments', and the marvelously vivacious Journals he wrote daily furnished him with first-rate material when he came to write his biography.
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- History | Europe - Great Britain - General
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: B
LCCN: 98809419
Series: Penguin Classics
Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.18" W x 7.62" (0.62 lbs) 384 pages
 
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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.