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Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson - Hardcover

Sisman, Adam

 
9780374115616: Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0374115613 ISBN 13: 9780374115616
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

A fascinating foray into the life of James Boswell, who was considered a lecher and a drunk, follows his seven-year struggle to write an autobiography of his friend and mentor Dr. Samuel Johnson and details his friendship with Dr. Johnson, his desperate attempts to become well-respected in the literary community, and how he eventually triumphed over adversity. 15,000 first printing.

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Adam Sisman is the author of A. J. P. Taylor: A Biography, which The Times of London called "so good as almost to constitute unfair competition." He lives near Bath with his wife, the novelist Robyn Sisman, and their two children.

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Verlag
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0374115613
ISBN 13 
9780374115616
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
351
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