The Life of Samuel Johnson
In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality. While Johnson's Dictionary remains a monument of scholarship, and his essays and criticism command continuing respect, we owe our knowledge of the man himself to this biography. Through a series of wonderfully detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure with a huge appetite for life, crossing swords with other great eighteenth-century luminaries, from Garrick and Goldsmith to Burney and Burke - even his long-suffering friend and disciple James Boswell. Yet Johnson had a vulnerable, even t…
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Weitere Autoren: Womersley, David (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-14-190743-7
- EAN: 9780141907437
- Produktnummer: 17830986
- Verlag: Penguin
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 1312 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'147 KB
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