The Life of Samuel Johnson
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In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure, vigorously…
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This book is an account of the life of Samuel Johnson, author of the first dictionary in English and a man of enormous talent and learning—and also a man of devastatingly quick wit.
Perhaps his story can be recounted in terms of just a few of these vignettes and quips from the book.
Johnson was a sophisticated denizen of his beloved London; James Boswell, a Scotsman who tells his story— obviously, himself a man of letters, was a friend, devotee, and admirer of Johnson's, whom he took several times to visit Boswell's beloved Scotland. Johnson: "The noblest prospect which a…
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