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Boswell's Presumptous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson
Boswell's Presumptous Task The Making of the Life of Dr Johnson
Author: Adam Sisman
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 idiot and condemned by posterity as a lecher and drunk. How could such a fool have written such...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780142001752
ISBN-10: 0142001759
Publication Date: 9/24/2002
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Type: Paperback
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