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James Boswell (1740-1795), Scottish man of letters, was born in Edinburgh and studied law in Glasgow, but his true ambition was literary fame and the company of great men. In 1760 he went to London where he met Samuel Johnson. After several literary successes, he began his acknowledged masterpiece, The Life of Samuel Johnson.
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''The most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature.'' --Walter Jackson Bate, American literary critic and biographer
''The effect of [this] biography is also similar to that of War and Peace or Anna Karenina. Just as those novels provide a social history of Russia, so the Life serves as a portrait of late eighteenth-century England. On the title page Boswell claimed that his book exhibits 'a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century,' and the book has shaped posterity's view of Johnson's literary world quite as much as it has created an image of Johnson himself.'' --Masterpieces of World Literature
''The effect of [this] biography is also similar to that of War and Peace or Anna Karenina. Just as those novels provide a social history of Russia, so the Life serves as a portrait of late eighteenth-century England. On the title page Boswell claimed that his book exhibits 'a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century,' and the book has shaped posterity's view of Johnson's literary world quite as much as it has created an image of Johnson himself.'' --Masterpieces of World Literature
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- PublisherPalala Press
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1343325528
- ISBN 13 9781343325524
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages382
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