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Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson
por Sisman, Adam
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Black cloth spine /gray boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (25.00)
- ISBN 10
- 0374115613
- ISBN 13
- 9780374115616
- Livreiro
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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Sobre este item
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. Fine condition in Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Keywords: Samuel Johnson. Lexicography. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth spine /gray boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (25.00). 8vo. xxii, 351pp. . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Sinopse
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, Adam Sisman here tells the story of Boswell's presumptuous task-the making of the greatest biography of all time. Sisman traces 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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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 002110
- Título
- Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson
- Autor
- Sisman, Adam
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Black cloth spine /gray boards
- Condição de sobrecapa
- DJ Not Price Clipped (25.00)
- Edição
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374115613
- ISBN 13
- 9780374115616
- Editorial
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 2001
- Dimensão
- 8vo. xxii, 351pp.
- Palavras-chave
- Samuel Johnson. Lexicography.
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Samuel Johnson / James Boswell;
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