Boswell's Life of Johnson - Softcover

Boswell, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1481137026 ISBN 13: 9781481137027

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. While Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763, when Johnson was 54 years old, Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research. The biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life, as Boswell makes various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censors many comments. Regardless of these actions, modern biographers have found Boswell's biography as an important source of information. The work was popular among early audiences and with modern critics, but some of the modern critics believe that the work cannot be considered a proper biography.

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Author of the biography considered to be one of the best ever, Boswell's Biography of Johnson.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1481137026
• ISBN 13: 9781481137027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480