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Boswell's presumptuous task : the making of the life of Dr. Johnson / Adam Sisman.
Van Pelt Library PR3533.B7 S57 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sisman, Adam.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boswell, James, 1740-1795. Life of Samuel Johnson.
- Boswell, James.
- Authors, English--Biography--History and criticism.
- Authors, English.
- Authors, English--Biography.
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
- Johnson, Samuel.
- Biography as a literary form.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001.
- Summary:
- A heroic, brilliantly detailed portrait of the biographer as artist, "Boswell's Presumptuous Task" shows movingly how a man who failed in almost everything else produced a masterpiece. Sisman traces the friendship between James Boswell and Dr. Samuel Johnson and how Boswell came to write one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Penguin, 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-335) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0374115613
- OCLC:
- 45556161
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