The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: 1 - Softcover

Boswell, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406931837 ISBN 13: 9781406931839

Publisher: Hard Press, 2006

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About the Author:

James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck; (29 October 1740 – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer and diarist, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for the biography he wrote of one of his contemporaries, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, which the modern Johnsonian critic Harold Bloom has claimed is the greatest biography written in the English language. 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, who narrates the tales, "I am lost without my Boswell."

About this edition

• Publisher: Hard Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1406931837
• ISBN 13: 9781406931839
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268