Book
Life of Johnson
- Published
- 1790
- Genre
- Biography
- Pages
- 1344
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/688826.The_Life_of_Samuel_Johnson?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_16
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–17
- Ambleside year
- Year 9 onwards · ages 14–17
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Notoriously and self-confessedly intemperate, Boswell shared with Johnson a huge appetite for life and threw equal energy into recording its every aspect in minute but telling detail. This irrepressible Scotsman was 'always studying human nature and making experiments', and the marvelously vivacious Journals he wrote daily furnished him with first-rate material when he came to write his biography.
Tags
ClassicsHumorJournalScotland