Hardcover
Wit, wisdom, and a brilliant circle: Johnson’s life revealed.
- Hardcover
1336 pages
- Release Date
15 November 1992
Summary
The most celebrated English biography is a group portrait in which an extraordinary man paints the picture of a dozen more. At the centre of a brilliant circle which included Burke, Reynolds, Garrick, Fanny Burney and even George III, Boswell captures the powerful, troubled and witty figure of Samuel Johnson, who towers above them all. Yet this is also an intimate picture of domestic life, which mingles the greatest talkers of a talkative age with the hero’s humbler friends in a picture which…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857151015 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857151011 |
| Author: | James Boswell |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1336 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 1992 |
| Weight: | 1.13kg |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 135mm x 58mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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