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Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson
Boswell's Presumptuous Task The Making of the Life of Dr Johnson
Author: Adam Sisman
A heroic, brilliantly detailed portrait of the biographer as artist. — James Boswell's 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 was regarded by his contemporaries as a man of no judgment and condemned by...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374115616
ISBN-10: 0374115613
Publication Date: 8/1/2001
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Book Type: Hardcover
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