The Life of Dr. Johnson

James Boswell

Verlag: Heron (Books that have changed man's thinking Series), 1969

Beschreibung

Condition: (see pics.) The boards are gilded and the green spine is also gilded with very slight fading. Yellow ribbon marker slightly discoloured. Generally still in a very good, clean and tight condition. Synopsis:Samuel Johnson was a poet, essayist, dramatist, and pioneering lexicographer, but his continuing reputation depends less on his modest literary output than on the forunate accident of finding an ideal biographer in James Boswell. Surely no other biographer can have had more devotion to his subject, more opportunity to study him, or more talent in bringing him vividly to life than Boswell in his Life of Johnson. As Johnson's constant and admiring companion, Boswell was able to record not only the outward events of his life, but also the humor, 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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1681121754705

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Life of Dr. Johnson

Verlag: Heron (Books that have changed man's thinking Series)

Erscheinungsdatum: 1969

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: Special Edition