George Birkbeck Norman Hill (1835–1903)
Auteur de Boswell's Life of Johnson, including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales [6-volume set]
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Crédit image: Image from Letters of George Birkbeck Hill (1906) edited by Lucy Hill Crump
Œuvres de George Birkbeck Norman Hill
Boswell's Life of Johnson, including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into… (1887) 31 exemplaires
Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volume 1: 1709-1765 3 exemplaires
Letters of George Birkbeck Hill, D. C. L., L. L. D., hon. fellow of Pembroke college, Oxford 2 exemplaires
Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volume 2: 1766-1776 2 exemplaires
Talks about autographs 1 exemplaire
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into… (2010) 1 exemplaire
Select Essays of Dr. Johnson 1 exemplaire
Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 1 exemplaire
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 1 exemplaire
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- Nom légal
- Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
- Autres noms
- Hill, George Birkbeck
- Date de naissance
- 1835-06-07
- Date de décès
- 1903-02-24
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Tottenham, Middlesex, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Hampstead, London, England, UK
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- Œuvres
- 16
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- 1
- Membres
- 72
- Popularité
- #243,043
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 8
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- 1
I suppose it is universally acknowledged that Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson is the greatest biography in the language. It is a book that you can read with profit and pleasure at any age. You can pick it up at any time, opening it at random, and be sure of entertainment. But to praise such a work at this time of day is absurd. I should like, however, to add to it a book that, to my mind undeservedly, is less well known. This is Boswell’s The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. The purchase by Colonel Isham of the Boswell manuscripts has resulted in a new and unexpurgated edition of it, for, as I suppose everyone knows, Boswell’s manuscript was edited by Malone, who thought it proper to tone it down in accordance with the primly elegant taste of the day, and so left out much that gave the book flavour. It enlarges your knowledge both of Johnson and of Boswell, and if it increases your love and admiration for the sturdy old doctor, it adds also to your respect for his poor biographer who has been so much abused. This is not a writer to be despised who had such a quick eye for an amusing incident, so much appreciation of a racy phrase, and such a rare gift for reproducing the atmosphere of a scene and the liveliness of a conversation.… (plus d'informations)