An edition of Life of Samuel Johnson (1776)

The conversations of Dr. Johnson

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An edition of Life of Samuel Johnson (1776)

The conversations of Dr. Johnson

  • 4.0 (3 ratings) ·
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  • 3 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

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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Taplinger Pub. Co.
Language
English
Pages
326

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Cover of: Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
1987, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
in English
Cover of: The conversations of Dr. Johnson
The conversations of Dr. Johnson
1970, Taplinger Pub. Co.
in English
Cover of: Boswell's Life of Johnson
Boswell's Life of Johnson
1917, Scribner's Sons
Cover of: The life of Samuel Johnson
The life of Samuel Johnson
1907, Dent, Dutton
in English
Cover of: Life of Johnson
Cover of: Boswell's Life of Johnson
Cover of: The life of Johnson
Cover of: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
1873, W. P. Nimmo
in English - New and complete ed., carefully revised from the most authentic sources. Edited, with notes, etc., by William Wallace, M. A.
Cover of: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D
The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D: including A journal of his tour to the Hebrides
1846, Harper & Brothers
in English - New ed., with numerous additions and notes / by John Wilson Croker.
Cover of: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
Cover of: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
828/.6/09, B
Library of Congress
PR3533 .B62 1970

The Physical Object

Pagination
326 p.
Number of pages
326

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Open Library
OL5700492M
Internet Archive
conversationsofd0000bosw_q7v2
ISBN 10
0800847350
LCCN
70121337
OCLC/WorldCat
132644
Goodreads
1004750

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