Johnson Without Boswell

Informationen zum Autor Hugh Kingsmill (1889-1949) was a novelist, a biographer of note and a talker of outstanding verve and brilliance. In his introduction to The Best of Hugh Kingsmill , Michael Holroyd wrote, 'Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown. My own vote goes to High Kingsmill as leader of this opposition'. Hugh Kingsmill wrote over thirty books, and Faber Finds, to mark the sixtieth anniversary of his death , is reissuing four of them: After Puritanism , Frank Harris , Samuel Johnson , and his anthology Johnson Without Boswell . Klappentext An anthology that offers conspectus of Samuel Johnson! a Great Man. Zusammenfassung It is for that reason Hugh Kingsmill hit upon the idea of assembling this alternative anthology: Samuel Johnson as recalled diversely by those including Johnson himself, Mrs Piozzi, Sir John Hawkins, Anna Seward (not flattering) and Miss Reynolds, Sir Joshua's sister.

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Edited by Hugh Kingsmill

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• Autori: Hugh Kingsmill
• Con la collaborazione di: Hug Kingsmill (Editore), Hugh Kingsmill (Editore)
• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.07.2009
• EAN: 9780571252749
• ISBN: 978-0-571-25274-9
• Pagine: 303
• Dimensioni: 198 mm x 126 mm x 21 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Capolavori fino al 1945; Saggistica > Arte, letteratura > Biografie, autobiografie