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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland : With the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Allan (INT) James; Massie Samuel; Boswell Johnson
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library (Cloth)
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson; James Boswell
Category: Travel | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides recounts their tour of Scotland in 1773. While Johnson focuses on Scotland itself, Boswell is even keener on presenting his friend to the notables of his homeland. Together they form a co ...Show more
Life of Johnson by Pat (INT) R. W. (EDT); Rogers James; Chapman Boswell
Category: Biography | Series: Oxford World's Classics
London Journal by James Boswell
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Even if James Boswell hadn't written the The Life of Johnson, he would be famous for this memoir of eighteenth-century London life. Boswell arrived in the great metropolis from his native Edinburgh in 1762, and he kept a daily journal of his nine-month sojourn. Bawdy, witty, and brimming with fascinatin ...Show more
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
The 22-year old James Boswell first met Johnson, who was then aged 54, in 1763. Nine years later he wrote in his journal of his 'constant plan to write the life of Mr Johnson'. Boswell was tireless in his search for authenticated proof, and his training as a lawyer helped him sift the evidence of friend ...Show more
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The most celebrated English biography is a group portrait in which extraordinary man paints the picture of a dozen moreAt the centre of a brilliant circle which included Burke, Reynolds, Garrick, Fanny Burney and even George III, Boswell captures the powerful, troubled and witty figure of Samuel Johnson ...Show more
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Category: Biography
This is a new, complete edition of the seminal modern, and still finest, literary biography. All previous versions have been unsatisfactory and textually inaccurate. This will be the first to return to the manuscript and the first to collate systematically the early printed versions. It is the most corr ...Show more
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