Overview :'Every Scotchman, ' says Sir Walter Scott, 'has a pedigree. It is a national prerogative, as inalienable as his pride and his poverty. My bi... Read More
Overview :Writer, rake, wit, traveler, and man-about-town, James Boswell kept a diary for thirty-three years, beginning just before his first trip to ... Read More
Overview :James Boswell (1740-1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful chronic... Read More
Overview :Marshall Waingrow's opus magnum is not a corrected edition of the printed text of Boswell's Life of Johnson. Rather, Waingrow presents an ed... Read More
Overview :This valuable collection presents James Boswell's quest over a period of some twenty years to amplify his personal knowledge of his major bi... Read More
Overview :The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advance... Read More
Overview :The fourth and final installment in the Yale Boswell Editions' manuscript transcription of Boswell's Life of Johnson The fourth and final vo... Read More
Overview :Phillips Brooks once told the boys at Exeter that in reading biography three men meet one another in close intimacy-the subject of the biogr... Read More