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The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age | Leo Damrosch
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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.
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Yahui07
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Cannot believe this book takes me almost 1 month to finish.

I enjoyed this book but sometimes got lost or had the feeling that why I read this book. I wouldn‘t say that I love this book but I could say I liked it.

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GoneFishing

Not for nothing was Smith‘s first book about moral philosophy. His concern, as Foley says, was the one that has haunted economic thinking ever since: “how to be a good person and live a good and moral life within the antagonistic, impersonal, and self-regarding social relations that capitalism imposes.

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GoneFishing

An Irish clergyman was present at a dinner where someone asked what the greatest pleasure was, and Johnson replied, “Fucking.” He added that the second best was drinking, and therefore he wondered why there were not more drunkards, for all could drink, though not all could fuck.

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Palimpsest
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My to read stack is getting out of hand. Some of these I‘ve started and pick up when I‘m in the mood. Especially the poetry collections. I guess I should get to it. 📚

Palimpsest @rubyslippersreads Yes, thanks to you for such a wonderful present! 😊😊 5y
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