The Life of Samuel Johnson (Penguin Classics)  -  James Boswell

KORTE INHOUD

The most celebrated English biography is a group portrait in which extraordinary man paints the picture of a dozen more At the centre of a brilliant circle which included Burke, Reynolds, Garrick, Fanny Burney and even George III, Boswell captures the powerful, troubled and witty figure of Samuel Johnson, who towers above them all. Yet this is also an intimate picture of domestic life, which mingles the greatest talkers of a talkative age with the hero's humbler friends in a picture which is, before all thi...
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1979 1x BEKROOND Uitgever: Penguin Classics 384 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0140431160 ISBN-13: 9780140431162