Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman

Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson

Adam Sisman

368 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language. Yet Boswell himself has generally been considered little more than an id...

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