The Life of Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson's place was assured by his Dictionary of the English Language, the first comprehensive English lexicography, but he was also the leading scholar and critic of his age. He is as celebrated for his brilliant conversations as for his writing which first appeared in London magazines around 1737. In 1763, Johnson met James Boswell and by 1791 The Life of Samuel Johnson appeared. The biography, hailed by critics as the greatest of all time, records Johnson's conversation so minutely that Johnson is better remembered today for his sayings than for his literary work.
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Mononotous delivery, June 14, 2009
Reviewer: redmore
The preview sample is accurate and the narrator maintains this mechanistic tone throughout. There is no way to distinguish text from reported speech, and the narrator mispronounces most English place names, skips the Greek, and makes a poor fist of French names. This is a sad representation of the aristocratic and educated Scot's chatty revelations about a fascinating Englishman.
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2002
- LearnOutLoud.com Product ID:
T002256
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