The Life of Samuel Johnson

This is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. While Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763, when Johnson was 54 years old, Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research.

About the author

JAMES BOSWELL (1740-1795), born in Edinburgh, his first published work, An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to That Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli (1768) earned him acclaim as a writer. Boswell was also a lawyer and diarist, but is best known as a biographer documenting, in particular, his intimacies with Samuel Johnson in The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791).

Product details

• Authors: James Boswell
• Publisher: Spire Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.01.2012
• EAN: 9781617206016
• ISBN: 978-1-61720-601-6
• No. of pages: 450
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 726 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies