Life of Johnson

ISBN-13: 9780199540211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 1536 str.

James Boswell

Opis

This complete and unabridged edition is the only complete critical edition in paperback. Samuel Johnson was a poet, essayist, dramatist, and pioneering lexicographer, but his continuing reputation depends less on his literary output than on the fortunate accident of finding an ideal biographer in James Boswell. 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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Recenzje

Boswell's life must be the greatest biography ever written; crammed with sage advice and anecdotes both comical and touching, it is best taken unabridged.

O autorze

James Boswell, geboren 1740 in Edinburgh als Sohn eines Richters. Brach Jurisprudenzstudium ab, um Deutschland, Frankreich, die Schweiz und Italien zu bereisen. Bekanntschaft mit Rousseau und Voltaire. In London suchte er die Karriere in der Politik. Seine letzten Jahre waren geprägt von Krankheit und Depressionen, der Autor verstarb 1795 in London.