The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. ... The fourth edition, revised and corrected. [With a portrait.]

Name: The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. ... The fourth edition, revised and corrected. [With a portrait.]
Author: James Boswell

Auteur: James Boswell

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: James Boswell Samuel Johnson

Engels
Paperback
9781241116767
18 februari 2011
510 pagina's

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James Boswell

James Boswell (1740-1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh. He is best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson. Boswell is known for taking voracious notes on the grand tour of Europe that he took as a young nobleman and, subsequently, of his tour to Scotland with Johnson. He also recorded meetings and conversations with eminent individuals belonging to 'The Club', including David Garrick, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds and Oliver Goldsmith. Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield in 1709 and was educated at Lichfield Grammar School and, for a short time, at Pembroke College, Oxford. In 1735 he married Elizabeth Jervis Porter and in 1737 moved to London. There, he became a regular contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine, but struggled to earn a living from writing. His London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal was published anonymously in 1738 and attracted some attention. From 1750 to 1752 he issued the Rambler, a periodical written almost entirely by himself, and consolidated his position as a notable moral essayist with some twenty-five essays in the Adventurer. When his Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755, Johnson took on the proportions of a literary monarch in the London of his day. In need of money to visit his sick mother, he wrote Rasselas (1759) reportedly in the evenings of one week, finishing a couple of days after his mother's death. In 1763 Boswell became his faithful follower and it is mainly due to him that we owe our intimate knowledge of Johnson. Johnson's last major work was Lives of the Poets. He died in December 1784.

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Title: The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. ... The fourth edition, revised and corrected. With a portrait.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Boswell, James; Johnson, Samuel; 1807. xv. 460 p.; 8 . 010370.bb.8."

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 18 februari 2011
Aantal pagina's: 510
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Hoofdauteur: James Boswell
Tweede Auteur: Samuel Johnson
Hoofduitgeverij: British Library, Historical Print Editions

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Product lengte: 246 mm
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Verpakking hoogte: 26 mm
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