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The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell and Christopher Hibbert

Boswell, James; Christopher Hibbert (abridged);

The Life of Samuel Johnson

Penguin Classics, 1979, 375 pages  [gbook]

ISBN 0140431160, 9780140431162

topics: |  biography | classic | history | uk


Notoriously and self-confessedly intemperate, Boswell shared with Johnson a
huge appetite for life and threw equal energy into recording its every
aspect in minute but telling detail. This irrepressible Scotsman was
'always studying human nature and making experiments', and the marvelously
vivacious Journals he wrote daily furnished him with first-rate material
when he came to write his biography.


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Feb 2009