Boswell's Presumptuous Task : The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson
by Sisman, Adam
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- 0142001759
- ISBN 13
- 9780142001752
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James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language. Yet Boswell himself has generally been considered little more than an idiot and condemned by posterity as a lecher and drunk. How could such a fool have written such a book? With great wit, Adam Sisman here tells the story of Boswell's presumptuous task-the making of the greatest biography of all time. Sisman traces the friendship between Boswell and Samuel Johnson, his great mentor, and provides a fascinating account of Boswell's seven-year struggle to write The Life of Samuel Johnson .
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- River Run Books (US)
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- 6610
- Title
- Boswell's Presumptuous Task : The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson
- Author
- Sisman, Adam
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- F
- ISBN 10
- 0142001759
- ISBN 13
- 9780142001752
- Publisher
- New York, NY, U.S.A.: Penguin Putnam, Incorporated, 2002
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY A LITERARY FORM BOSWELL JAMES 1740 1795 JOHNSON SAMUEL 1709 1784 AUTHORS SCOTTISH AUTOBIOGRAPHY GENERAL CRITICISM EUROPEAN ENGLISH IRISH WELSH 0-14-200175-9 B4
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