/lit/ - Literature

>>13840891
Boswell’s Life is my favorite book. Particularly once Boswel himself meets Johnson, there is quite literally never a dull page. Johnson’s views on his contemporaries and other literary figures, amusing anecdotes and letters (like his constant teasing of Mrs Boswell), and some very touching bits (I’m thinking especially of his conversation with Burke at Dr. Johnson’s deathbed). I cannot recommend it highly enough.

To demonstrate, I have opened my copy entirely at random and found this (on pg. 845 of the Oxford World Classics edition):

>If (said he) I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman; but she should be one who could understand me, and would add something to the conversation.