Life of Samuel Johnson Ll.D.

Ubertragung aus dem Englischen von Jutta Schlosser. Mit 17zeitgenossischen Illustrationen. Leipzig, Insel-Verlag 1984, cm.13x20,5, pp.660, legatura ed.in tutta tela grigia, titoli in oro al dorso, sopraccop.fig. [copia in ottimo stato] Bibliothek des 18. Jahrhunderts.

A cura di R.W. Chapman. Revisione di J.D. Fleeman. Inrtoduz.di Pat Rogers. Oxford, Oxford University Press 1980, cm.11x19, pp.1492, brossura, copertina figurata a colori. Collana The World's Classics. Testo in inglese. “Samuel Johnson was a poet, essayist, dramatist, and pioneering lexicographer, but his continuing reputation depends less on his modest literary output than on the fortunate accident of finding an ideal biographer in James Boswell. Surely no other biographer can have had more devotion to his subject, more opportunity to study him, or more talent in bringing him vividly to life than Boswell in his Life of Johnson. 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 conservation. 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.”