Boswell’s Presumptuous Task: Writing the Life of Dr Johnson - Brossura

Sisman, Adam

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ISBN 10: 0007234295 ISBN 13: 9780007234295

Casa editrice: Harper Perennial, 2009

Riassunto

A sparkling account of the writing of one of the most celebrated biographies of all time – ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ – and an account of the friendship that blossomed between writer and his subject.

James Boswell’s ‘The Life of Dr Johnson’ is acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language: a model of biographical endeavour and achievement, an epic attempt to capture the spirit of a man who embodied the spirit of an age. And yet Boswell himself has generally been considered as little more than an idiot, condemned by posterity as a lecher and a drunk, a man who spent his short life in various states of dissipation, on a fruitless search for amusement and diversion. But Adam Sisman’s sparkling account of the writing of Boswell's biographical masterpiece tells another story: of how Boswell succeeded in his presumptuous task of capturing the character of his garrulous, curmudgeonly, beloved friend Samuel Johnson on the page. And by tracing the friendship between the writer and his subject Sisman provides a fascinating, detailed and richly textured account of the writing of one of the masterpieces of literature in the English canon.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Adam Sisman is the author of ‘A.J.P.Taylor: A Biography’ and ‘The Friendship’ (published by HarperCollins 2006). He lives near Bath, England, with his wife, the novelist Robyn Sisman, and their two children.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Harper Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0007234295
• ISBN 13: 9780007234295
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile