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100 1  Damrosch, Leopold,|eauthor. 
245 14 The Club :|bJohnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped 
       an age /|cLeo Damrosch. 
264  1 New Haven ;|aLondon :|bYale University Press,|c[2019] 
264  4 |c©2019 
300    vi, 473 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations (some color), portraits ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-443) and 
       index. 
505 0  Prologue -- Johnson before Boswell : the years of struggle
       -- Johnson before Boswell : fame at last -- Boswell before
       Johnson : setting out for the wide world -- Boswell before
       Johnson : the search for self -- The fateful meeting -- 
       Boswell abroad -- The Club is born -- Sir Joshua Reynolds 
       -- Edmund Burke -- David Garrick -- The spirit of mirth --
       A new life at Streatham -- Boswell in Scotland--and 
       Stratford -- Among the farthest Hebrides --The widening 
       river -- Empire -- Adam Smith -- Edward Gibbon -- Infidels
       and believers -- Johnson nearing the end -- Boswell on the
       downhill slope -- Epilogue -- Appendix : members of the 
       Club in its first twenty years. 
520    "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"--Dust jacket. 
600 10 Johnson, Samuel,|d1709-1784. 
600 10 Boswell, James,|d1740-1795. 
650  0 Societies|zEngland|zLondon|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Intellectuals|zGreat Britain|vBiography. 
651  0 Great Britain|xIntellectual life|y18th century. 
651  0 Great Britain|xHistory|y18th century. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft