Author Name: Bate, W. Jackson
Title: Samuel Johnson
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper
Edition: Third Printing
Publisher: NY Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1975) 1977
ISBN Number: 0151792607 / 9780151792603
Seller ID: 259
646 pages; Top of spine dusty; dw rubbed, front flap creased, top edge worn; A better and more balanced biography than Boswell's tribute to his friend. ; 'Bate has the advantage of being more removed, and is able to see Johnson as more of a human being as a result. In addition to dealing with Johnson's successes, Bate gives greater treatment to Johnson's failures and personal difficulties than Boswell does. When I read Boswell, who lionizes Johnson, it seemed like the most natural thing in the world for Johnson to produce all the great writing that he did. When I then read Bate, the triumph of Johnson's writing seemed all the greater. If you're only going to read one biography of Johnson, this should be it.' Recommended by Frank L.
Johnson, Samuel England Great Britain
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