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封麵是的,讀的我覺得下午四點真無聊
評分How wonderful, how unsearchable are the ways of GOD! Johnson, who was blest with all the powers of genius and understanding in a degree far above the ordinary state of human nature, was at the same time visited with a disorder so afflictive.
評分封麵是的,讀的我覺得下午四點真無聊
評分封麵是的,讀的我覺得下午四點真無聊
評分封麵是的,讀的我覺得下午四點真無聊
James Boswell (1740-1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh. He is best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson. Boswell is known for taking voracious notes on the grand tour of Europe that he took as a young nobleman and, subsequently, of his tour to Scotland with Johnson. He also recorded meetings and conversations with eminent individuals belonging to 'The Club', including David Garrick, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds and Oliver Goldsmith. Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield in 1709 and was educated at Lichfield Grammar School and, for a short time, at Pembroke College, Oxford. In 1735 he married Elizabeth Jervis Porter and in 1737 moved to London. There, he became a regular contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine, but struggled to earn a living from writing. His London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal was published anonymously in 1738 and attracted some attention. From 1750 to 1752 he issued the Rambler, a periodical written almost entirely by himself, and consolidated his position as a notable moral essayist with some twenty-five essays in the Adventurer. When his Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755, Johnson took on the proportions of a literary monarch in the London of his day. In need of money to visit his sick mother, he wrote Rasselas (1759) reportedly in the evenings of one week, finishing a couple of days after his mother's death. In 1763 Boswell became his faithful follower and it is mainly due to him that we owe our intimate knowledge of Johnson. Johnson's last major work was Lives of the Poets. He died in December 1784. David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on English literature from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century. For Penguin he has edited Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Augustan Critical Writing, Burke's Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful and Other Pre-Revolutionary Writings, and Samuel Johnson's Selected Essays.
In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure, vigorously engaging and fencing with great contemporaries such as Garrick, Goldsmith, Burney and Burke, and of course with Boswell himself. Yet anxieties and obsessions also darkened Johnson's private hours, and Boswell's attentiveness to every facet of Johnson's character makes this biography as moving as it is entertaining. In this entirely new and unabridged edition, David Womersley's introduction examines the motives behind Boswell's work, and the differences between the two men that drew them to each other. It also contains chronologies of Boswell and Johnson, appendices and comprehensive indexes, including biographical details.
不知道为什么,读起来有点恶心,我总觉得鲍斯威尔和约翰逊的友谊有点不寻常,可能是他们不敢面对,没有勇气吧。感觉约翰逊就是和钱钟书一类的,都是博闻强识型,至于怎么强法就听鲍斯威尔给你吹吧。也许是因为节译本或者翻译水平的问题,但在我心里这本名著确实打了不小的折扣...
評分看为他人作传,比较痛苦的一点是,看着他死去。总算快读出味道来了,他却死了。不管传记文采如何,毕竟是一个活生生的人,有音容笑貌,你好像陪他走了一生,有时嫌他,有时恨他,有时笑他,还总爱数数还有多少页就可以翻完,打算今天下午临出门前把这本书给“消灭”掉,偏偏最...
評分不知道为什么,读起来有点恶心,我总觉得鲍斯威尔和约翰逊的友谊有点不寻常,可能是他们不敢面对,没有勇气吧。感觉约翰逊就是和钱钟书一类的,都是博闻强识型,至于怎么强法就听鲍斯威尔给你吹吧。也许是因为节译本或者翻译水平的问题,但在我心里这本名著确实打了不小的折扣...
評分 評分中文才370多页,但英文全本(如牛津出版社版本)有近1500页,想必中文版一定是根据简编本翻译的,哈佛经典有简编本,三百多页,估计中文版是依据这个版本翻译的。
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