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

by Adam Sisman

$25 · Offered by Good Books in the Woods

Hardcover, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000. Second Printing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. James Boswell's Life of Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language. And yet Boswell himself has generally been considered little more than an idiot ... .

• Binding: Hardcover

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