The Club : Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age

The Resource The Club : Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age
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The Club : Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age
Title remainder
Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age
Statement of responsibility
Leo Damrosch
Title variation
Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age
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Language
eng
Summary
In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as "the Club." In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the "odd couple" Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth-century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own
Biography type
collective biography
Cataloging source
N$T
Dewey number
941.07
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • portraits
  • plates
Index
index present
Language note
In English
LC call number
DA485
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography

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