Forfatter fødeår: 1740-1795
James Boswells "London dagbog" er blevet til i årene 1762-1763, da den blot 22-årige skotte opholdt sig i byen i en periode på ni måneder. For eftertiden giver dagbogen et vigtigt... Læs mere
I sommeren 1763 rejste den skotske adelsmand James Boswell til Holland, hvor han opholdt sig i knap et år. Året forinden havde Boswell været i London, hvor han var begyndt at... Læs mere
Samuel Johnson, der levede fra 1709 til 1784, var en meget indflydelsesrig engelsk kritiker og forfatter. Mest kendt er han i dag for "A Dictionary of the English Language", som udkom i 1755... Læs mere
The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb, Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate
The third and penultimate volume in the Yale Research Edition's genetic transcription of the manuscript of Boswell's biographical masterwork.
Marshall Waingrow's opus magnum is not a corrected edition of the printed text of Boswell's Life of Johnson. Rather, Waingrow presents an edition of the manuscript which enables us to follow Boswell's compositional process through successive revisions.
These letters chart the friendship between Boswell and the man he called his "most intimate friend", William Johnson Temple.
A new, corrected and enlarged edition of the record of James Boswell's quest over more than twenty years to amplify his knowledge of his major biographical subject, Samuel Johnson.
This is the first of two volumes containing Boswell's correspondence with more than 200 people, including Pitt, Rousseau, Paoli, John Wilkes, Sir Alexander Dick, Baretti and numerous women friends.
The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769