List: $143.00
| Sale: $100.10
Club: $71.50
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Author: James Boswell
Narrator: David Timson
Unabridged: 51 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos
Published: 02/09/2018
Category: Biography & Autobiography - Historical
Synopsis
Charming, vibrant, witty and edifying, The Life of Samuel Johnson is a work of great obsession and boundless reverence. The literary critic Samuel Johnson was 54 when he first encountered Boswell; the friendship that developed spawned one of the greatest biographies in the history of world literature. The book is full of humorous anecdote and rich characterisation, and paints a vivid picture of 18th-century London, peopled by prominent personalities of the time such as Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Wilkes, Oliver Goldsmith and David Garrick, while also giving a compelling insight into Johnson’s complex humanity – his depression, fear of death, intellectual brilliance and rough humour.