The Life of Samuel Johnson

by James Boswell
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Good Books rating 4.77
Biography and Memoir
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  • ID: 140
  • Added: 2025-09-03
  • Updated: 2025-09-03
  • ISBN: 9783734091117
  • Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
  • Published: 2019-09-25
  • Reviews: 3
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  • Many have called it the greatest biography written in English.
  • Boswell wrote a good Book because he had a heart and an eye to discern Wisdom.
  • The picture must and will be genuine; like the very image thereof in a clear mirror.
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  • Boswell does zoom through a summary but devotes the bulk to detailed conversations.
  • Johnson was a formidable adversary in debate with quick-witted riposte.
  • He was rigidly Anglican, Tory, prejudiced, and condescending.
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  • The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., generally regarded as the greatest of English biographies.
  • Boswell kept a record of Johnson’s conversations using a self-invented system of shorthand.
  • Boswell often asked Johnson questions that appeared naive to prompt statements worth preserving.
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