Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making Of The Life Of Dr. Johnson

By Adam Sisman | Literature and Fiction ebooks | DMCA

A heroic, brilliantly detailed portrait of the biographer as artist.James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language. Yet Boswell himself was regarded by his contemporaries as a man of no judgment and condemned by posterity as a lecher and a drunk. How could such a fool have wri...

Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st American ed edition (August 1, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0374115613
ISBN-13: 978-0374115616
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 1455020
Format: PDF ePub djvu ebook

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reviews: In this magnificent work Mr Sisman describes the making of that greatest of all biographies, Boswell's Life of Dr Johnson. To his contemporaries the task that Boswell had taken on was presumptuous indeed - to record the life of the greatest literary ...

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