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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
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson; James Boswell; Jack Lynch (Editor); Celia Barnes (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), a kind oflocodescriptive ethnog ...Show more
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson & James Boswell
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson's descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade, and agriculture of a society that was new to him. The account in Boswell's ...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
London Journal 1762-1763 by BOSWELL JAMES
Category: Biography Memoir
New edition of this seminal text, with an introduction and notes by Gordon Turnbull Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at twenty-two, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal, not discovered for more than 150 years, is a deft, frank and artful record of advent ...Show more
The Life Of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
While Johnson's Dictionary remains a monument of scholarship, and his essays and criticism command continuing respect, this biography gives information of the man himself. Through a series of detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable figure with a huge appetite for life, crossing swords with oth ...Show more
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Category: Classic Fiction | 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 | 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: Classic Fiction
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