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Original Title:	The Life of Samuel Johnson
ISBN:	0679417176 (ISBN13: 9780679417170)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Samuel Johnson, James Boswell
Setting:	United Kingdom,1770

The Life of Samuel Johnson Hardcover | Pages: 1344 pages

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Poet, lexicographer, critic, moralist and Great Cham, Dr. Johnson had in his friend Boswell the ideal biographer.

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.

The result is a masterpiece that brims over with wit, anecdote and originality. Hailed by Macaulay as the best biography ever written and by Carlyle as a book 'beyond any other product of the eighteenth century', The Life of Samuel Johnson today continues to enjoy its status as a classic of the language.

This shortened version is based on the 1799 edition, the last in which the author had a hand.

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Title	:	The Life of Samuel Johnson
Author	:	James Boswell
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1344 pages
Published	:	January 11th 1993 by Everyman's Library (first published 1790)
Categories	:	Biography. Classics. Nonfiction. History. Literature. 18th Century

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I might be too exhausted from reading the thing to write a proper review. Just holding it takes a toll on my sub-ganymedic upper body. The first thing to note is that I'd much rather read more Boswell than read more of Johnson's letters. Boswell's writing is like that of eighteenth century philosophers: totally unselfconscious, they simply say what they mean. Later theoreticians will undermine a lot of it, and try to find latent contradictions and so on, but the fact is that most people are a

This is where Ive spent most of my reading time the past few weeks. My first reading of Boswells Life of Johnson was, in fact, the reading of an abridgment. This time, I swallowed the whole 1,200 pages. Im still digesting and may post something more here by way of a review in the days or weeks to come. For now, Ill just say that Im pretty sure Dr Johnson would dislike me. He doesnt seem to have liked Americans at all (a bunch of vile Whigs!). I doubt whether I would have liked Dr Johnson either.

I walked to visit Dr. Johnson's House at 17 Gough Square, London in England on July 5, 1997 in the evening alone. I also bought this great biography there (10.99 pounds) and had since kept reading off and on till I reached its final page on November 5, 2001. I had known this book since my early teens and thus I have my own respect for Dr. Johnson for his humility with his literary brilliance as well as his fame and recognition from the Universities of Dublin and Oxford with the two honorary

Finished: 02.09.2018Genre: biographyRating: B-#ccbookreviewsConclusion:"Dictionaries are like watches.The worst is better than none, andthe best cannot be expected to go quite true"#Classic.....but a very long read! Review

Reading this book was like spending time talking to a good friend who is curious, interested in new ideas, gives odd twists to old ones, is original in his thoughts, a person you look forward to seeing. The book is loosely organized chronologically so I read it over a period of months, a few pages at a time no problem of forgetting what I had read as every entry is on a new topic. To read more than that would be overloading your mind, and in fact on a few occasions Boswell complains of that,

This is a book which is not about a thing but is the thing itself. I think theres a complicated German philosophical term for that. In the history books they will tell you Samuel Johnson is dead these 200 years, but I say No Sir. Hes alive, here, right here. Hes walking and talking and wringing the necks of fools right here.In this books oceanic vastness of pages Boswell the drunk, the fool, the butt of japes, the ignoble toady, creates the reality tv of 18th century London. There are verbatim

This is a book which is not about a thing but is the thing itself. I think theres a complicated German philosophical term for that. In the history books they will tell you Samuel Johnson is dead these 200 years, but I say No Sir. Hes alive, here, right here. Hes walking and talking and wringing the necks of fools right here.In this books oceanic vastness of pages Boswell the drunk, the fool, the butt of japes, the ignoble toady, creates the reality tv of 18th century London. There are verbatim