Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 - Couverture souple

Boswell, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0748621466 ISBN 13 : 9780748621460

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2004

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Read by Anthony Quayle. James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (October 29, 1740 May 19, 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland; he is best known for his biography of Samuel Johnson. His name has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer. Boswell is also known for the detailed and frank journals that he wrote for long periods of his life, which remained undiscovered until the 1920s. These included voluminous notes on the grand tour of Europe that he took as a young man and, subsequently, of his tour of Scotland with Johnson. His London Journal is a published version of the daily journal he kept between the years 1762 and 1763 while in London. Along with many more of his private papers, it was found in the 1920s at Malahide Castle in Ireland, and first published in 1950. In it, Boswell, then a young Scottish man of 22, visits London for his second time. The most notable event in the journal is Boswell's meeting Samuel Johnson, the famous writer, moralist, and lexicographer with whom Boswell would form a close relationship, eventually writing the biography Life of Johnson.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0748621466
• ISBN 13: 9780748621460
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Éditeur: Pottle Frederick A.