Boswell James: 32 books

Boswell's surname has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer, especially one who records those observations in print. In A Scandal in Bohemia, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes affectionately says of Dr. Watson,...

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...

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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...

James Boswell's Correspondence with Erskine and A Tour to Corsica collects the epistolary literary discussions of Boswell and Andrew Erskine as well as anecdotes from Bosell's tour to Corsica during the movement for national liberation.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. 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...

Published in 1791 Boswells Life of Johnson exposes one of the most gigantic figures of English literature with unparalleled closeness and originality. He succeeded in portraying Johnsons life through lively conversations with Johnson that reflected his abundant humor and deep insight. This work details...

James Boswell's Life of Johnson has ensured that Samuel Johnson remains one of the most intriguing and loved of English literary figures. In it, we not only follow Johnson's rise to literary preeminence and his development of the Dictionary, but because the author and biographer were friends we get to...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. James Boswell's Life of Johnson has ensured that Samuel Johnson remains one of the most intriguing and loved of English literary figures. In it, we not only follow Johnson's rise to literary preeminence and his development...

Notoriously and self-confessedly intemperate, Boswell shared with Johnson a huge appetite for life and threw equal energy into recording its every aspect in minute but telling detail. This irrepressible Scotsman was 'always studying human nature and making experiments', and the marvelously vivacious...

Life of Johnson by Boswell was published in 1791 and it remains one of the best biographies ever written. It is a compilation of letters journals memoirs and extracts of other works. It presents the personality of the author his profound ideas and his ideology of life. Even the most negligible detail...

Life of Johnson by Boswell was published in 1791 and it remains one of the best biographies ever written. It is a compilation of letters journals memoirs and extracts of other works. It presents the personality of the author his profound ideas and his ideology of life. Even the most negligible detail...

Life of Johnson by Boswell was published in 1791 and it remains one of the best biographies ever written. It is a compilation of letters journals memoirs and extracts of other works. It presents the personality of the author his profound ideas and his ideology of life. Even the most negligible detail...