【英语原版下载】The Life of Samuel Johnson [塞缪尔•约翰逊传]

                
                
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本书是一部举世公认的伟大传记文学作品，为深入了解语文学乃至世界文学所必读之书。遗憾的是这样一部重要作品，竟然一直没有在中国大陆出版。目前读者见到的这本书，为台湾学者所译，原由台湾志文出版出版。
　约翰逊博士是十八世纪英国文坛的祭酒，他曾费时七年独立完成睥睨英国文坛的《英文字典》，而他如大熊星座般君临众星的魅力，则在他那充满人生智慧的谈论对话、罕见的巧妙言谈、那意想不到的比喻、卓越的修辞、洋溢的机智中体现，这使得史蒂文森每天都要像读《圣经》那样读上一些，英国语言学家乔艾特更是为之着迷，前后手不释卷地读了五十遍。作者包斯威尔从二十三岁起便与约翰逊成了忘年的莫逆之交，他立志把这位文坛巨擘一点一滴挖掘出来。对爱好智慧的现代人来说，本书正是一座睿智的宝库。在这部千古绝唱的传记中，读者除了看到因缅怀往事而产生的逼人才华、光彩夺目的文字外，还可看到包氏本人的悲剧精神，及由此而生所洋溢的两位不平凡人物的温馨友情。近代传记大师莫洛亚曾赞叹包氏是现代传记文学之父。此书业已成了世界最伟大不朽之传记文学的经典之作。读者可以每十年看一次，而且愈看愈有味，同时领会杰出传记家所赋予人的历史生命以永恒的不朽性。
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. While Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763, when Johnson was 54 years old, Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research. The biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life, as Boswell makes various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censors many comments. Regardless of these actions, modern biographers have found Boswell's biography as an important source of information. The work was popular among early audiences and with modern critics, but some of the modern critics believe that the work cannot be considered a proper biography.
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