THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON - All 6 Volumes in One Edition

THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON - All 6 Volumes in One Edition
Author :
Publisher : DigiCat
Total Pages : 2953
Release :
ISBN-10 : EAN:8596547761334
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Book Synopsis THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON - All 6 Volumes in One Edition by : James Boswell

Download or read book THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON - All 6 Volumes in One Edition written by James Boswell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 2953 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D." (1791) is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. While Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763, when Johnson was 54 years old, Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research. The biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life, as Boswell makes various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censors many comments. Regardless of these actions, modern biographers have found Boswell's biography as an important source of information. The work was popular among early audiences and with modern critics, but some of the modern critics believe that the work cannot be considered a proper biography. James Boswell (1740–1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is best known for the biography he wrote of one of his contemporaries, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, which the modern Johnsonian critic Harold Bloom has claimed is the greatest biography written in the English language.


THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON - All 6 Volumes in One Edition Related Books

THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON - All 6 Volumes in One Edition
Language: en
Pages: 2953
Authors: James Boswell
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-12-22 - Publisher: DigiCat

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D." (1791) is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the developmen
Samuel Johnson
Language: en
Pages: 543
Authors: Jeffrey Meyers
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-27 - Publisher: Oldcastle Books Ltd

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition. Johnson was famous as a poet,
Samuel Johnson
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Peter Martin
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-16 - Publisher: Hachette UK

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature Poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist
Samuel Johnson
Language: en
Pages: 853
Authors: Samuel Johnson
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-05 - Publisher: Yale University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain’s pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson Samuel
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Language: en
Pages: 636
Authors: John Hawkins
Categories: Authors, English
Type: BOOK - Published: 1787 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK