The complete online text of The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell.

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. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) is often sai...

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. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) is often sai...

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 journals has not only enhanced his reputation as one of lite...

Hart, Kevin. Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. 244 pp. ISBN 0-521-65182-4, $59.95. Kevin Hart's Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property sets a far more ambitious agenda than its title suggests. Hart's aim, broadly described, is...

While no one critic can begin to define Shakespeare, the most authoritative writings on the Bard remain those of Samuel Johnson. As part of the New Penguin Shakespeare Library, H. R. Woudhuysen has compiled "Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare" ($8.95), which gathers not just the...