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Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:61585316
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:637254996
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780486836379
This classic biography provides a brilliant portrait of an age as well as a person, recapturing the sparkling wit and memorable conversational style of 18th–century sage Samuel Johnson. Abridged edition.
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:221121449
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600046199
Author : James Boswell,Robert William Chapman
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1347342923
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Author : James 1740-1795 Boswell,Robert William 1881 Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1374087696
Author : W. Jackson Bate
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781582435244
Samuel Johnson is a writer of such significance that his era — the second half of the 18th century — is known as the Age of Johnson. Starting out as a Grub Street journalist, he made his mark on history as a poet, author, moralist, literary critic, political commentator, and lexiconographer. We, as moderns, need to know this man, and W. Jackson Bate's formidable biography, with its uncanny depth and empathy, is the book that makes that happen. Professor W. Jackson Bate is a lyrical writer who deftly explains the effect Johnson has had on scholars, critics, and readers of all kinds through the past 200 years: "The reason Johnson has always fascinated so many people of different kinds," Bate writes, "is not simply that [he] is so vividly picturesque and quotable . . . The deeper secret of his hypnotic attraction, especially during our own generation, lies in the immense reassurance he gives to human nature." Bate delves deep into the character that formed Johnson's intellect and fueled his prodigious contribution to literature, religion, politics, and our understanding of the nature of humankind, revealing the fascinating nature — both odd and adored — of this literary luminary.
Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1903385830
Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781627932813
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 tragic, side and anxieties and obsessions haunted his private hours. Boswell's sensitivity and insight into every facet of his subject's character ultimately make this biography as moving as it is entertaining. Based on the 1799 edition, Christopher Hibbert's abridgement preserves the integrity of the original, while his fascinating introduction sets Boswell's view of Samuel Johnson against that of others of the time.
Author : Peter Martin
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780297856160
The first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare. Our view of Johnson has been overwhelmingly shaped by James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, published in 1791, the most famous biography in the English language. But invaluable as Boswell is as a source, he should not be the last word. This new biography illuminates the Johnson that Boswell never knew: the awkward youth, the unsuccessful schoolmaster, the eccentric marriage, his early years in London in the 1740s scratching a living, the epic struggle to produce the Dictionary. Very much the outsider, rather than the supremely confident dispenser of robust common sense. Using material unknown to previous biographers, Peter Martin describes the psychological knife-edge on which Johnson felt he lived, caused by his severe melancholia and his physical diseases. He explores Johnson's role in the publishing and printing world of the time and he reveals how important women were to Johnson throughout his life. The Samuel Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable and sympathetic figure than the one that Boswell so memorably portrayed.
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : LCCN:54004092
Author : David Nokes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780805086515
In this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted his work.
Author : James Boswell
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Originally published in 1791, this biography of English writer, Samuel Johnson, has been described as the greatest biography ever written. Differing from others in that era, it contained not just a record of Johnson's public life, but instead painted a vivid portrait of him, and included extensive reports of Johnson's conversation. This edition is an abridged version edited by Charles Grosvenor Osgood.Note: there were no chapters in the main body of the text, so I added some arbitrary ones to break the text up a little bit.
Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Readers
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097059174
