James Boswell

Author : Peter Martin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300093124
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life of James Boswell written by Peter Martin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born in Edinburgh, the 'Athens of the North', a Scot who hated living in Scotland and nourished a lifelong love affair with London, Boswell was biographer, journalist, laird, advocate, social lion, incurable rake, lover, life of the party, traveller, steadfast friend, endearing charmer, exhibitionist fool, and drunken sot. In this moving biography, Peter Martin assesses Boswell's literary achievements and uncovers the pulsating and dynamic world he thrived in, from the royal courts and the drawing rooms of fashionable ladies and gentlemen to the fleshpots of London's unsavoury underworld and the chambers of the insane. He also poignantly reveals a man in agony, easily misunderstood, relentlessly plagued by hypochondria or melancholia, buffeted like a straw in the wind by a multitude of anxieties and 'horrible imaginings'."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : James Boswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241215455
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Journal 1762-1763 written by James Boswell and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 adventures ranging from his vividly recounted love affair with a Covent Garden actress to his first amusingly bruising meeting with Samuel Johnson, to whom Boswell would later become both friend and biographer. The London Journal 1762-63 is a witty, incisive and compellingly candid testament to Boswell's prolific talents.

Author : Donald J. Newman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684482836
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boswell and the Press written by Donald J. Newman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell is the first sustained examination of James Boswell’s ephemeral writing, his contributions to periodicals, his pamphlets, and his broadsides. The essays collected here enhance our comprehension of his interests, capabilities, and proclivities as an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment in which he worked influenced what he wrote and how he wrote it. This book will also be of interest to historians of journalism and the publishing industry of eighteenth-century Britain.

Author : James Boswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763 written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Boswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Boswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Account of Corsica written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1768 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838641712
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Boswell written by James Boswell and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300060744
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journals of James Boswell, 1762-1795 written by James Boswell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847675387
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey to the Hebrides written by Samuel Johnson and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland. Both kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published separate accounts of their journey. These accounts of their great tour contain some of the finest pieces of travel writing ever produced: they are magnificent historical documents and also portraits of two extraordinary personalities. In the vivid prose of these two famous men of letters, the Highlands and the Western Islands spring to life. The juxtaposition of the two very different accounts creates an unsurpassed portrait of a society which was utterly alien to the Europe of the Enlightenment, and which was straining on the brink of calamitous change. These great masterpieces, entertaining, profound, and marvellously readable are also our last chronicles of a lost age and people.