Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood

Phillips Brooks once told the boys at Exeter that in reading biography three men meet one another in close intimacy—the subject of the biography, the author, and the reader.

菲利普斯·布鲁克斯曾在埃克塞特告诉男孩们，在阅读传记时，三个男人在亲密的亲密中相遇——传记的主题、作者和读者。

The most interesting is, of course, the man about whom the book is written.

当然，最有趣的是书中的那个人。