Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson Architectural Buildings and illustrations of Florence White

and illustrations of Florence White Williams

Approximate run time: 30 minutes

A full-size poster is also included

Filled with show-biz gossip and told with verve

Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson Architectural Buildings and illustrations of Florence WhiteA heroic, brilliantly detailed portrait of the biographer as artist. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language. Yet Boswell himself was regarded by his contemporaries as a man of no judgment and condemned by posterity as a lecher and a drunk. How could such a fool have written such a book? Boswell's "presumptuous task" was