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A fascinating foray into the life of James Boswell, who was considered a lecher and a drunk, follows his seven-year struggle to write an autobiography of his friend and mentor Dr. Samuel Johnson and details his friendship with Dr. Johnson, his desperate attempts to become well-respected in the literary community, and how he eventually triumphed over adversity. Reprint.
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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 writeThe Life of Samuel Johnson.
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