This complete and unabridged edition is the only complete critical edition in paperback. Samuel Johnson was a poet, essayist, dramatist, and pioneering lexicographer, but his continuing reputation depends less on his literary output than on the fortunate accident of finding an ideal biographer in James Boswell. As Johnson's constant and admiring companion, Boswell was able to...
This complete and unabridged edition is the only complete critical edition in paperback. Samuel Johnson was a poet, essayist, dramatist, and pioneering lexicographer, but his continuing reputation depends less on his literary output than on the fortunate accident of finding an ideal biographer in James Boswell. As Johnson's constant and admiring companion, Boswell was able to record not only the outward events of his life, but also the humour, wit, and sturdy common sense of his conversation. His brilliant portrait of a major literary figure of the eighteenth century, enriched by historical and social detail, remains a monument to the art of biography.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)，英国人，政治思想保守，文学崇尚古典主义，注重伦理。乍看之下，似乎是个迂腐老头的形象，可是偶然翻开这本书，就被他充满机锋、措辞优雅的语言吸引。虽然这本书是用18世纪的英语写成的，读起来有点困难，还是决定把它啃完。这里先引几段文字： "...
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Had Dr. Johnson written his own life, in conformity with the opinion which he has given, ᵃ that every man’s life may be best written by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clearness of narration and elegance of language...
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1 有用 豆友2899487 2021-02-22 13:55:17
这本书有意思
1 有用 Martin Ye 2020-01-29 02:00:02
写得太好了, the best biography ever. （与其说写得好，不如说Dr. Johnson说话太妙了）