Author: James Boswell
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ISBN: 9780434837021
Category : English prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: James Boswell
Publisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Author: James Boswell
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Author: Irma S. Lustig
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813133461
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: James Boswell
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: James Boswell
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: James Boswell
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c1993-c1997.
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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This book is the first in a two-volume edition of James Boswell's correspondence during a period that was one of the happiest and most productive of his life--from his return from the Grand Tour in February 1766 to his marriage in November 1769. During this time Boswell became a practicing lawyer, a best-selling author, a family man, and a landowner as Laird of Dalblair. The correspondence--some 742 letters--gives a new perspective on Boswell's personal and professional development as well as on society, politics, gender issues, crime, theater, industry, agriculture, domestic life, religion, philosophy, publishing, and much more. Volume I of the edition contains letters between Boswell and a rich diversity of correspondents, including Giuseppe Baretti, William Pitt the Elder, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Wilkes, and Zelide, the beautiful Dutch bluestocking. The texts have been transcribed from the original manuscripts. Carefully introduced and thoroughly annotated, the volume will be read with pleasure as well as for enlightenment. Copublished with Edinburgh University Press

Author: James Boswell
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ISBN: 9780434837021
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Author: James Boswell
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c1993-c1997.
ISBN: 9780300074031
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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This is the second and final volume of James Boswell’s general correspondence for the years 1766 to 1769. The richly diverse collection includes the texts of letters between Boswell and 123 correspondents, beginning when Boswell was in the early years of his legal career in Edinburgh and closing shortly after his marriage to his penniless Ayrshire cousin, Margaret Montgomerie. The volume includes a comprehensive analytical index to both volumes of Boswell’s general correspondence between 1766 and 1769. The correspondence touches on many topics and issues, some public, some private, including Boswell’s patronage of an obscure struggling playwright and poet, William Julius Mick≤ the publication and reception of Boswell’s highly successful Account of Corsica and his efforts to rouse British interest in the Corsican cause; and the aftermath of Boswell’s vigorous legal and journalistic involvement in the Douglas Cause. Letters to and from his European correspondents carry echoes of Boswell’s recently completed Grand Tour and the closing moments of his epistolary affair with the francophone Dutch author, Belle de Zuylen (Z�lide).

Author: James Boswell
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838641712
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Draws upon letters, diaries, memoirs, book reviews, and newspaper articles to present a picture of James Boswell from the vantage point of those who knew him best. This book tells what family, friends, rivals, critics, and satirists thought of the man who produced notable works.