A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides - Couverture souple

Boswell, James; Johnson, Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140432213 ISBN 13 : 9780140432213

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1984

Synopsis

Book by Boswell James Johnson Samuel

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 diary, published after Johnson's death as The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785), offers an intimate personal record of Johnson's behavior and conversation during the trip.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Samuel Johnson was born in 1709 and died in 1784--a long life, though one marred by depression and fear of death. Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, with his good friend and fellow traveller James Boswell, a biographer. l

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0140432213
• ISBN 13: 9780140432213
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432