Boswells biography of samuel johnson
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
And this is just as well, since although the Life tells you a great deal about what Johnson was like, it doesn't actually tell you much about, well, his life. Boswell hurtles through Johnson's first fifty-three years in just pages – or to put it another way, knocks out 70 percent of his subject's life in the first 18 percent of the biography. Boswell simply could not give a shit about the early years, which he wasn't there to see. As far as he was concerned, his own life began on the fateful day in when he met his hero, and that's when his Life really gets underway.
From then on, the pace drops to an unbelievable level of detail, with Boswell showing (as he admits) an ‘almost superstitious reverence’ for preserving everything his subject ever wrote or said in his presence, no matter how seemingly trivial. Thank-you letters, new year's resolutions, assorted pr
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Boswell's Life of Johnson by James Boswell
Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood