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Boswell's Presumptuous Task - The Making Of The Life Of Dr. Johnson: Adam Sisman
Boswell's Presumptuous Task - The Making Of The Life Of Dr. Johnson: Adam Sisman
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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 a book? With great wit, Sisman tells the story of Boswell's presumptuous task - the making of the greatest biography of all time by tracing the friendship between Boswell and Samuel Johnson, his great mentor, and provides a fascinating account of Boswell's seven-year struggle to write The Life of Samuel Johnson.
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1st U.S. Edition; gift inscription on blank front endpaper; hardback in unclipped dust jacket; tightly bound and clean within, Autobiography/Bio/Non-FictionShare
