Life of Johnson

Life of Johnson
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 1540
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ISBN-10 : 0192835319
ISBN-13 : 9780192835314
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Download or read book Life of Johnson written by James Boswell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 idealbiographer 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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