The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell

The Life of Samuel Johnson

Cena: 28,00 

Stan książki
średni/wyraźne zużycie (książka wycofana z biblioteki, pieczątki i naklejki biblioteczne, wytarcia na brzegach okładki, lekko pożółkłe strony, rdzawe plamki na brzegach kartek)
Nr katalogowy
02800003
Liczba stron
406
Rok wydania
1969
Okładka
twarda
Rozmiar
13x20

Pozostało tylko: 1

Book description

          Samuel Johnson was a poet, essayist, dramatist, and pioneering lexicographer, but his continuing reputation depends less of his modest literary output than on the fortunate accident of finding an ideal biographer in James Boswell. Surely no other biographer can have had more devotion to his subject, more opportunity to study him, or more talent in bringing him vividly to life than Boswell in his Life of Johnson. As Johnson’s constant and admiring companion, Boswell was able to record not only the outward events of his life, but also the humour, wit, and sturdy common sense of his conversation. His brilliant portrait of a major literary figure of the eighteenth century, enriched by historical and social detail, remains a monument to the art of biography. 

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