The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
By Leo Damrosch
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Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern 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.
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One of the New York Times Top 10 Best Books of the Year
A #1 Amazon.com bestseller in British & Irish Literary Criticism
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2019 in Nonfiction
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year in Nonfiction
A BookRiot Pick of 7 Great New LIterary Biographies
A Newsday Pick of the Week
A Publishers Weekly Pick of Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2019
Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern
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.
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Available Formats : | CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Nonfiction/Biography |
Runtime: | 15.02 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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