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The Life of Samuel Johnson audiobook
- By: James Boswell
- Narrator: Bernard Mayes
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Literary
- Length: 54 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 1998
- Language: English
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The Life of Samuel Johnson Audiobook Summary
James Boswell forever changed the genre of biography when he painstakingly transformed a scholarly profusion of detail into a perceptive, lifelike portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson.
James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson reveals a man of outsized appetites and private vulnerabilities and is the source of much of what we know about one of the towering figures of English literature. Boswell spent a great deal of time with Johnson in his final years and from his scrupulously accurate memory and copious journal was able to faithfully record the brilliance and wit of Dr. Johnson’s conversation. Boswell’s aim and achievement was completeness; no detail was too small for him. On this point Dr. Johnson remarked to him, “There is nothing, sir, too little for so little a creature as man.” Boswell’s thirst for detail makes this indisputably the finest of many biographies of Johnson.
This biography gained its unique place in literary history from the fact that its style was revolutionary. The usual style of biographers of that era was to record dry facts from the subject’s public life only. Boswell differed by incorporating actual conversations of Dr. Johnson, which Boswell had previously noted down in journals, and by including many more details of personal life. The result revolutionized the genre.
For both its subject and its style, The Life of Samuel Johnson is still popular with modern critics and students of the history of English thought and of English literature.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson Audiobook Narrator
Bernard Mayes is the narrator of The Life of Samuel Johnson audiobook that was written by James Boswell
Bernard Mayes is a teacher, administrator, corporate executive, broadcaster, actor, dramatist, and former international commentator on US culture. He is best known for his readings of historical classics.
About the Author(s) of The Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell is the author of The Life of Samuel Johnson
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The Life of Samuel Johnson Full Details
| Narrator | Bernard Mayes |
| Length | 54 hours 39 minutes |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | May 01, 1998 |
| ISBN | 9781483086200 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Life of Samuel Johnson is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Literary
Additional info
The publisher of the The Life of Samuel Johnson is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781483086200.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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