Preface
In making this abridgement of Boswell’s Life
of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell’s
criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson’s
opinions in legal cases, most of th...
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The Scottish biographer and diarist James Boswell (1740-1795), who wrote The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., published in 1791, ranks as the greatest biographer in the history of Western literature. Hi...
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James Boswell is important for several reasons. His biography of Samuel Johnson is undoubtedly his most celebrated work, and for it he has traditionally been assigned pride of place among biographers....
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James Boswell's impact on the development of biography as a genre and on the understanding of the requirements for good biographical writing can hardly be overstated. The discovery of Boswell's journa...
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Biography EssayJames Boswell is important for several reasons. His biography of Samuel Johnson is undoubtedly his most celebrated work, and for it he has traditionally been assigned pride of place amo...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson
James Boswell
James Boswell