Life of Johnson (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199540211)

This complete and unabridged edition is the only complete critical edition in paperback. Samuel Johnson was a poet, essayist, dramatist, and pioneering lexicographer, but his continuing reputation depends less on his literary output than on the fortunate accident of finding an ideal biographer in James Boswell. As Johnson's constant and admiring companion, Boswell was able to record not only the outward events of his life, but also the humour, 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.

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Author: James Boswell
ISBN-10: 0199540217
ISBN-13: 9780199540211
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2008
Pages: 1536
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 2.40d

Review Citation(s):
Newsweek 11/09/2009 pg. 56