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1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 01 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Simon Vance. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
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Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
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Societies -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century.
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Intellectuals -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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| Added Author |
Vance, Simon, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982664381 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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198266438X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12309057 |
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