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The Life of Samuel Johnson

By James Boswell, David Womersley (Editor), David Womersley (Introduction), David Womersley (Noted by)
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By James Boswell, David Womersley (Editor), David Womersley (Introduction), David Womersley (Noted by)
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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 engaging and fencing with great contemporaries such as Garrick, Goldsmith, Burney and Burke, and of course with Boswell himself. Yet anxieties and obsessions also darkened Johnson''...

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