James Boswell

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Born:
Oct. 29, 1740
Died:
May 19, 1795

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James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (; 29 October 1740 (N.S.) – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of his friend and older contemporary the English writer Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language. A great mass of Boswell's diaries, letters and private papers were recovered from the 1920s to the 1950s, and their ongoing publication by Yale University has transformed his reputation.

Books by James Boswell

James Boswell: The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757-1763 (Hardcover, 2001, Yale University Press) No rating

The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757-1763

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James Boswell: James Boswell's Life of Johnson (Hardcover, 1999, Yale University Press) No rating

James Boswell's Life of Johnson

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James Boswell: Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764 (1952, McGraw-Hill) No rating

Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764

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James Boswell: Boswell on the grand tour (1953, McGraw-Hill) No rating

Boswell on the grand tour

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James Boswell: Boswell on the grand tour: Italy, Corsica, and France, 1765-1766 (1956) No rating

Boswell on the grand tour: Italy, Corsica, and France, 1765-1766

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James Boswell: Boswell in search of a wife, 1766-1769 (1956, McGraw-Hill) No rating

Boswell in search of a wife, 1766-1769

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James Boswell: Boswell for the defence, 1769-1774 (1959, McGraw-Hill) No rating

Boswell for the defence, 1769-1774

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James Boswell: Boswell, the English experiment, 1785-1789 (1986, McGraw-Hill) No rating

Boswell, the English experiment, 1785-1789

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James Boswell: Boswell, the great biographer, 1789-1795 (1989, McGraw-Hill) No rating

Boswell, the great biographer, 1789-1795

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James Boswell: "Een Beytie Holanssche" (Paperback, 1994, Academic Press Leiden) No rating

"Een Beytie Holanssche"

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James Boswell: A view of the Edinburgh theatre during the Summer season, 1759 (1760) (1976, University of California, William Andrews Clark Memorial library)

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A view of the Edinburgh theatre during the Summer season, 1759 (1760)

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James Boswell: Boswell's Edinburgh journals, 1767-1786 (2003, Mercat Press) No rating

Boswell's Edinburgh journals, 1767-1786

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Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Ted Hughes, Jonathan Swift, Ford Madox Ford, Walter De la Mare, Louis MacNeice, Edward Lear, Jean de La Fontaine, W. H. Davies, William Cowper, James Boswell, Matthew Arnold, Izaak Walton, Giles Lytton Strachey, William Langland, Anonymous, John Skelton, Robert Herrick, Thomas Gray, Thomas Hood, Christina Rossetti, Stevie Smith, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth, Joanna Baillie, Samuel Carr, Eleanor Farjeon, Harold Monro, Richard Church, Ewart Milne, Hal Summers, A. S. J. Tessimond, A. C. Swinburne, Miller, Mary Britton, Thomas Master, Christopher Smart, Anna Seward, Thomas Flatman, Francis Scarfe, Patrick R. Chalmers, Rosamund Marriott Watson, A. L. Rowse, Richard Garnett, Alexander Gray, Annabel Farjeon, J. G. Whittier, Samuel Carr: The Poetry of Cats (Hardcover, 1991, Longmeadow Press) No rating

The Poetry of Cats

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James Boswell: Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides With Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. (Konemann Classics) (Hardcover, Konemann)

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides With Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. (Konemann Classics)

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William Shakespeare, Charlotte Brontë, Homer, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot, Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Doris Lessing, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas More, Arthur C. Clarke, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Thomas Hardy, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Anna Quindlen, Arthur Rimbaud, William Blake, William Butler Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Christopher Marlowe, Sophocles, Mary Wollstonecraft, Confucius, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rudyard Kipling, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Ted Hughes, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Nadine Gordimer, V. S. Naipaul, Thomas Malory, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe, Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Byron, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Muriel Spark, Eavan Boland, Anita Desai, Thomas Jefferson, Publius Ovidius Naso, Siegfried Sassoon, Derek Walcott, Louis MacNeice, Spender, Stephen, Sappho, Robert Browning, Alexander Pope, Robert Burns, Tu Fu, Graham Greene, Wilfred Owen, Franciscus Petrarca, Saki, Ben Jonson, Alan Sillitoe, Kobayashi, Issa, Anna Akhmatova, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Pepys, Heinrich Heine, A. E. Housman, James Boswell, Matthew Arnold, Tony Blair, Kevin Feldman, William Trevor, Philip Larkin, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Robert Bolt, Winston Churchill, James Berry, Sir Isaac Newton, D. H. Lawrence, Yehuda Amichai, Walter Raleigh, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, Suckling, John Sir, Richard Lovelace, Anne Finch, Thomas Gray, Emma Thompson, Suzanne Vega, Bei Dao, Stevie Smith, Sydney Smith, William Wordsworth, Kate Kinsella, Joanna Baillie, Emily Brontë, Brooke, Rupert, Joyce Armstrong Carroll, Edward E. Wilson, Bashö, Buson Yosa, Colleen Shea-Stump Ph.D., James Joyce, Tracy Chapman, Bede, Elizabeth l, Queen of England, Ken Hughes, Francis Jeffrey, Amelia Lanier, Catherine McGuinness, Margaret Paston, Redgrove, Peter.: Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition No rating

Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition

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