The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, by Leo Damrosch

Jeffrey Meyers considers a new account of one of the most talented generations in English literature

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April 18, 2019

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April 18, 2019

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Print headline: Where men of letters held court

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