The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age Audiobook

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• “Damrosch brilliantly brings together the members’ voices… [A] stellar book.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Impeccable scholarship at the service of absolute lucidity…Learned, penetrating, a pleasure to read…[A] splendid book.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “An exceptionally lively introduction to late eighteenth-century English thought and literature…Relates many of the best anecdotes and verbal bonbons associated with Johnson or his friends…Magnificently entertaining.”

  — Washington Post

• “A group portrait of the extraordinary ‘Club’…whose work, lives, and ideas resonate still.”

  — Harvard Magazine

• “Masterful…Late eighteenth century Britain comes brilliantly alive in a vibrant intellectual history.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “Simon Vance is a master narrator and a highly suitable choice for this lively history…The narrative is rich, insightful, often quite bawdy, and performed with perfect expression, grace, and understanding.”

  — AudioFile

• “Delightfully captures the bonds of friendship and competition…in his rollickingly entertaining look at late-18th-century London’s liveliest, most dazzlingly witty social club.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Damrosch’s account reminds readers why this circle of creativity continues to fascinate.”

  — Library Journal

• “So many of the ideas circulating in eighteenth-century London…shaped the world we live in today. This book is an indispensable examination of an uncertain, rapidly-changing, hugely influential place and time.”

  — BookRiot

• “Brilliant, lucid, and enjoyable…With perfectly chosen anecdotes, The Club vividly evokes the period.”

  — Norma Clarke, author of Brothers of the Quill

• “Leo Damrosch’s book is an extraordinary achievement. A lively and engaging account of the coming together of a group of famously gifted individuals—the Club, a virtual microcosm of the vibrant world of mid-to-late eighteenth-century London.”

  — William C. Dowling, Rutgers University

• “Damrosch’s glorious study takes us on a brilliantly animated Grand Tour of the whole Johnsonian universe, with its ever-expanding galaxy of stellar personalities…Shrewd, good-natured, and endlessly informative, Damrosch makes a spell-binding guide.”

  — Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder