TY - BOOK AU - Boswell,James AU - Hill,George Birkbeck Norman TI - Life of Johnson, Volume 2: 1765-1776 AV - PR PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 KW - Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography KW - Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography KW - Critics -- Great Britain -- Biography N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Samuel_Johnson; Release date is 2005-10-01; Produced by Jonathan Ingram, David King and the Online Distributed Proofreaders; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Life of Johnson, Volume 2" by James Boswell is a biography published in 1791. This landmark work chronicles the final twenty-two years of Samuel Johnson's life, England's great writer and literary critic. Drawing from extensive journals and detailed conversations, Boswell recreates Johnson's world through vivid scenes and dialogue. Often called the greatest biography in English, it reveals a complex moral hero struggling with despair and personal eccentricities while displaying penetrating wisdom. The work transformed biographical writing and remains both an invaluable historical source and enduring literary masterpiece. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9072 ER -