Johnson And Boswell: The Story Of Their LivesHouse of Stratus, 1 avr. 2015 - 262 pages Hesketh Pearson’s biography is the first to combine the story of the two men whose lives were inseparable in the history of literature. The book starts with Samuel Johnson’s career up to the moment he met Boswell, then we follow James Boswell’s until he met Johnson, and took him on a journey to the Hebrides. From this point their lives mingled. Pearson has included reliable contemporary accounts of Johnson, such as Fanny Burney’s, and has skilfully made sense of Boswell’s own writings to form a clearer picture of the man of letters. |
Table des matières
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The Dictionary | 30 |
Friends and Dependants | 39 |
From Ireland | 44 |
Mainly Matrimonial | 114 |
Friendly Treatment | 127 |
Together | 135 |
The Rambler Rambles | 148 |
Best and Worst | 162 |
Tremendous Talks | 172 |
Social Comforts | 185 |
Various | 200 |
The Man | 51 |
The Meeting | 62 |
From Scotland | 68 |
At Large | 74 |
In Search of a Character | 84 |
A Biographer Abroad | 91 |
In Search of a Cause | 99 |
From Wales | 109 |
Distressful Strokes | 215 |
The Race with Death | 226 |
The Laird and the Lord | 232 |
The End of the Story | 242 |
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Hesketh Pearson | 254 |
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