The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
English
By (author): Leo Damrosch
The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern
Selected by New York Times Book Review as a Best Book Since 2000
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 A Kirkus Best Book of 2019
Magnificently entertaining.Washington Post
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 Turks 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 eighteenthcentury Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own. See more
Selected by New York Times Book Review as a Best Book Since 2000
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 A Kirkus Best Book of 2019
Magnificently entertaining.Washington Post
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 Turks 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 eighteenthcentury Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own. See more
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