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The Journals of James Boswell, 1762-1795

By: James Boswell

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The Journals of James Boswell, 1762-1795

By: James Boswell

Writer, rake, wit, traveler, and man-about-town, Boswell went everywhere, knew everyone, and never missed an opportunity to enjoy himself. His journals are compulsively self-revealing.

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450

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Yale University Press

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0300060742

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9780300060744

James Boswell

As His Contemporaries Saw Him

By: James Boswell

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As His Contemporaries Saw Him

By: James Boswell

Draws upon letters, diaries, memoirs, book reviews, and newspaper articles to present a picture of James Boswell from the vantage point of those who knew him best. This book tells what family, friends, rivals, critics, and satirists thought of the man who produced notable works.

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264

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Associated University Presse

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0838641717

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9780838641712

Boswelliana

The Commonplace Book of James Boswell

By: James Boswell

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Boswelliana

The Commonplace Book of James Boswell

By: James Boswell

This antiquarian volume contains a complete manual of the art of angling for roach, with comments on methodology, equipment, tactics, and other information useful to the roach fisherman. Written in simple, plain language and including much in the way of practical instructions and useful tips and hints, this text will prove invaluable to the roach fisherman, and makes for a great addition to collections of angling literature. The chapters of this book include: The Roach, Descriptive, Statistical, Roach Waters, The Roach Fisherman, Baits and Ground-Baits, Major Tactics and Major Considerations, Methods and Styles, Odds and Ends In Lighter Vein, and Hempseed Fishing for Roach. We are republishing this antiquarian volume now complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of fishing.

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368

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Brunton Press

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1406725048

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9781406725049

James Boswell's Life of Johnson: 1766-1776

By: James Boswell,Bruce Redford,Elizabeth Goldring

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James Boswell's Life of Johnson: 1766-1776

By: James Boswell,Bruce Redford,Elizabeth Goldring

This is the second volume of the annotated transcription of James Boswell's manuscript of The Life of Johnson, with its numerous complex revisions and wide array of supplementary materials. The transcription covers the period from 1766, when Boswell returned to Scotland after his eventful Grand Tour and then renewed his friendship with Johnson in London, to 1776, when the two traveled together to Oxford and the English Midlands, visiting scenes of Johnson's youth. In this decade the personal bonds of friendship between Boswell and Johnson grew stronger, as did their biographical partnership.The volume records all substantive changes Boswell made in the process of composition, restores lost or deleted material, and identifies compositors and other errors. It documents Boswell's compositional selections and processes at every stage, showing how his compelling -- and still controversial -- view of Johnson emerged.

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336

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Yale University Press

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0300079699

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9780300079692

The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769: 1768-1769

By: James Boswell

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The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769: 1768-1769

By: James Boswell

This is the second and final volume of James Boswell’s general correspondence for the years 1766 to 1769. The richly diverse collection includes the texts of letters between Boswell and 123 correspondents, beginning when Boswell was in the early years of his legal career in Edinburgh and closing shortly after his marriage to his penniless Ayrshire cousin, Margaret Montgomerie. The volume includes a comprehensive analytical index to both volumes of Boswell’s general correspondence between 1766 and 1769. The correspondence touches on many topics and issues, some public, some private, including Boswell’s patronage of an obscure struggling playwright and poet, William Julius Mick≤ the publication and reception of Boswell’s highly successful Account of Corsica and his efforts to rouse British interest in the Corsican cause; and the aftermath of Boswell’s vigorous legal and journalistic involvement in the Douglas Cause. Letters to and from his European correspondents carry echoes of Boswell’s recently completed Grand Tour and the closing moments of his epistolary affair with the francophone Dutch author, Belle de Zuylen (Z�lide).

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352

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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c1993-c1997.

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0300074034

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9780300074031

Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763

By: James Boswell

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Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763

By: James Boswell

Boswell was the most charming companion in the world, and London becomes his dining room and his playground, his club and his confessional. No celebrant of the London world can ignore his book.'Peter Ackroyd, from the ForewordIn 1762 James Boswell, then twenty-two years old, left Edinburgh for London. The famous Journal he kept during the next nine months is an intimate account of his encounters with the high-life and the low-life in London. Frank and confessional as a personal portrait of the young Boswell, the Journal is also revealing as a vivid portrayal of life in eighteenth-century London. This new edition includes a Foreword by Peter Ackroyd, which discusses Boswell's life and achievement.Key Features:* Features a new Foreword by Peter Ackroyd, author of London: The Biography* This edition of Boswell's classic text has long been recognised as THE authoritative version* Edited by the renowned Boswell expert, the late Frederick A. Pottle* Includes a first-class introduction and informative notes throughout

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413

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474464580

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9781474464581

The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple, 1756-1795

By: James Boswell,William Johnston Temple

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The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple, 1756-1795

By: James Boswell,William Johnston Temple

This is the first of two volumes collecting the letters of James Boswell and the friend who knew him longer and more intimately than any other, William Johnson Temple (1739-1796), clergyman and essayist. Meeting as university students at Edinburgh in 1755, Boswell and Temple began a lively, affectionate, and intellectual relationship. Their lifelong correspondence reveals not only their intimate thoughts, hopes, ambitions, and family news but also their running debates on many of the later eighteenth century’s most enduring political, social, and doctrinal controversies.

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544

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Yale University Press

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0300071973

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9780300071979

James Boswell's Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

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James Boswell's Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

The third and penultimate volume in the Yale Research Edition's genetic transcription of the manuscript of Boswell's biographical masterwork.

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514

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748668926

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9780748668922

The Life of Samuel Johnson

By: James Boswell

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The Life of Samuel Johnson

By: James Boswell

The most celebrated English biography is a group portrait in which extraordinary man paints the picture of a dozen more At 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, who towers above them all. Yet this is also an intimate picture of domestic life, which mingles the greatest talkers of a talkative age with the hero's humbler friends in a picture which is, before all things, humane. As a young man about London, James Boswell was obsessed by literature, and, on a fateful day in 1763, he attached himself with unswerving tenacity to the dominant literary figure of his age—the splendidly rotund, articulate, and humane Dr Samuel Johnson. What followed was the most famous of friendships between writers and the bais for the remarkable documentation contained in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, the greatest and most compelling of all biographies. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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388

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Penguin

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0140431160

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9780140431162

Facts and Inventions

Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell

By: James Boswell

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Facts and Inventions

Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell

By: James Boswell

James Boswell (1740–1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a generous and varied selection of Boswell’s journalistic writings, most of which have not been published since the eighteenth century. It offers a new angle on the history of journalism, an idiosyncratic view of literature, politics, and public life in late eighteenth-century Britain, and an original perspective on a complex and engaging literary personality.

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Yale University Press

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0300141262

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9780300141269

Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

This complete and unabridged edition is the only complete critical edition in paperback. Samuel Johnson was a poet, essayist, dramatist, and pioneering lexicographer, but his continuing reputation depends less on his literary output than on the fortunate accident of finding an idealbiographer in James Boswell. As Johnson's constant and admiring companion, Boswell was able to record not only the outward events of his life, but also the humour, wit, and sturdy common sense of his conversation. His brilliant portrait of a major literary figure of the eighteenth century,enriched by historical and social detail, remains a monument to the art of biography.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0192835319

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9780192835314

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The Journals of James Boswell, 1762-1795

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James Boswell's Life of Johnson: 1766-1776

James Boswell's Life of Johnson: 1766-1776

The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769: 1768-1769

The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769: 1768-1769

Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763

Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763

The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple, 1756-1795

The Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple, 1756-1795

James Boswell's Life of Johnson

James Boswell's Life of Johnson

The Life of Samuel Johnson

The Life of Samuel Johnson

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