具體描述
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.
著者簡介
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. He lives in Newton, MA.
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Damrosch's book is a cleverly interwoven story of Edmund Burke, David Garrick, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, Joshua Reynolds and some of their friends On occasion a book can serve as a monument. That’s happily the case with The Club, by Leo Damrosch, the dist...
評分Damrosch's book is a cleverly interwoven story of Edmund Burke, David Garrick, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, Joshua Reynolds and some of their friends On occasion a book can serve as a monument. That’s happily the case with The Club, by Leo Damrosch, the dist...
評分Damrosch's book is a cleverly interwoven story of Edmund Burke, David Garrick, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, Joshua Reynolds and some of their friends On occasion a book can serve as a monument. That’s happily the case with The Club, by Leo Damrosch, the dist...
評分Damrosch's book is a cleverly interwoven story of Edmund Burke, David Garrick, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, Joshua Reynolds and some of their friends On occasion a book can serve as a monument. That’s happily the case with The Club, by Leo Damrosch, the dist...
評分Damrosch's book is a cleverly interwoven story of Edmund Burke, David Garrick, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, Joshua Reynolds and some of their friends On occasion a book can serve as a monument. That’s happily the case with The Club, by Leo Damrosch, the dist...
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London Literary Society 的前傳，其實就是約翰遜博士，和約翰遜博士跟班、傳記作者Boswell的閤傳，再兼及俱樂部幾個最有名的成員。Boswell決定瞭這本書八卦的性質，適閤睡前和飛機上的閱讀。但Leo Damrosch溫和的氣質不太適閤八卦，比起Menand的《形而上學俱樂部》缺少煽情點，文筆也缺點那種改變或者定義一個時代的蓬勃之氣。
评分London Literary Society 的前傳，其實就是約翰遜博士，和約翰遜博士跟班、傳記作者Boswell的閤傳，再兼及俱樂部幾個最有名的成員。Boswell決定瞭這本書八卦的性質，適閤睡前和飛機上的閱讀。但Leo Damrosch溫和的氣質不太適閤八卦，比起Menand的《形而上學俱樂部》缺少煽情點，文筆也缺點那種改變或者定義一個時代的蓬勃之氣。
评分London Literary Society 的前傳，其實就是約翰遜博士，和約翰遜博士跟班、傳記作者Boswell的閤傳，再兼及俱樂部幾個最有名的成員。Boswell決定瞭這本書八卦的性質，適閤睡前和飛機上的閱讀。但Leo Damrosch溫和的氣質不太適閤八卦，比起Menand的《形而上學俱樂部》缺少煽情點，文筆也缺點那種改變或者定義一個時代的蓬勃之氣。
评分想象一下伯剋 斯密 吉本 約翰遜 休謨……一起吃飯聊天????
评分想象一下伯剋 斯密 吉本 約翰遜 休謨……一起吃飯聊天????
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