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Livres anciens et modernes

Johnson, Samuel, Boswell, James

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland : AND The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (English Library)

Penguin Books Ltd, 1984,

19,00 €

Pali s.r.l. Libreria

(Roma, Italie)
Fermé jusqu'au 29 novembre 2024.

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Détails

Auteur
Johnson, Samuel, Boswell, James
Éditeurs
Penguin Books Ltd, 1984
Description
S
Jaquette
Non
Etat de conservation
En excellent ètat
Reliure
Couverture souple
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Non

Description

16mo, br. ed. 429pp .I mentioned our design to Voltaire, wrote Boswell. He looked at me as if I had talked of going to the North Pole As it turned out, Johnson enjoyed their Scottish journey (although the land was not quite so wild and barbaric as perhaps he had hoped), and Boswell delighted in it. The year was 1773, they were sixty-three and thirty-two years old, and had been friends for ten years. Their journals, published together here, perfectly complement each other. Johnsons majestic prose and hawk eye for curious detail take in everything from the stone arrowheads found in the Hebrides, to the medicinal waters of Loch Ness and the mischiefs of emigration. Meanwhile, it is very lucky that as Johnson was observing Scotland, Boswell was observing Johnson. His record is perceptive, highly entertaining and full of sardonic wit; for him, as for us, it is an appetizer for The Life of Johnson.