The Club – Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age - Leo Damrosch

The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern  Selected by New York Times Book Review as a Best Book Since 2000  A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 • A Kirkus Best Book of 2019  “Magnificently entertaining.”—Washington Post  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,... Zobrazit více