The Club Lib/E: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age Contributor(s): Damrosch, Leo (Author), Vance, Simon (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1982664312 ISBN-13: 9781982664312 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing OUR PRICE: $106.20 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - History | Europe - Great Britain - Georgian Era (1714-1837) - History | Modern - 18th Century |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Vance, Simon: - Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over fifty Earphones Awards and thirteen prestigious Audie Awards. He was named Booklist's very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009. Damrosch, Leo: -Leo Damrosch is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus at Harvard University. His previous works include the National Book Critics Circle Award winner Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World and Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake. |