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The Life of Samnuel Johnson / James Boswell ; edited amd abridged with an introduction and notes by Christopher Hibbert.
LIBRA Special PR3533 .B6 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
- Series:
- Penguin classics
- Standardized Title:
- Life of Samuel Johnson
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
- Johnson, Samuel.
- Authors, English--18th century--Biography.
- Authors, English.
- Lexicographers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Lexicographers.
- Great Britain.
- Critics--Great Britain--Biography.
- Critics.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 375 pages ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- Abridged edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1986.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., 1787.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0140431160
- 9780140431162
- OCLC:
- 57659038
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