The life of Johnson
by James Boswell
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Poet, lexicographer, critic, moralist and Great Cham, Dr. Johnson had in his friend Boswell the ideal biographer.
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.
The result is a masterpiece that brims over with wit, anecdote and originality. Hailed by Macaulay as the best biography ever written and by Carlyle as a book 'beyond any other product of the eighteenth century', The Life of Samuel Johnson today continues to enjoy its status as a classic of the language.
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Biography, Description and travel, English Authors, Early works to 1800, Interviews, Lexicographers, KDescr. & trav, Intellectual life, Critics, Intellectuals, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Authors, English, SAMUEL JOHNSON, Johnson, samuel, 1709-1784, Authors, english, Authors, biography, Biografie, Travel, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Places
Hebrides (Scotland), Great Britain, Scotland, Hebrides, North Wales, EnglandTimes
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Includes index.
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