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The Club

Leo Damrosch

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#3289 of 3,809 books · #1032 in History

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (2019).

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.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-13
9780300244960
Genre
History
Topics
18th-century Britain intellectual lifeLiterary and philosophical friendshipsSamuel Johnson and James Boswell

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