Author: James BoswellPublisher: London : T. Cadwell and W. Davies
ISBN:
Category : Hebrides
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James BoswellPublisher: London : T. Cadwell and W. Davies
ISBN:
Category : Hebrides
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
To The Hebrides
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857905163
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are widely regarded as among the best pieces of travel writing ever produced. Johnson and Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Ulva, Inchkenneth and Iona. Highly readable, often profound, and at times very funny, their accounts of the 'jaunt' are above all a valuable record of a society undergoing rapid change. In this pioneering new edition, Ronald Black brings together the two men's starkly contrasting accounts of each of the thirteen stages of the journey. He also restores to Boswell's text 20,000 words from his journal which were denied entry to his book because they were intimate, defamatory, or about the islands rather than Johnson. The endnotes incorporate Boswell's footnotes, translations of Latin passages, a clear summary of pre-existing information on the two texts, and a fresh focus on what the two men actually found on their trip. To the Hebrides also includes contemporary prints by Thomas Rowlandson, seventeen new maps and a comprehensive index.
Journey to the Hebrides
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1847675387
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland. Both kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published separate accounts of their journey. These accounts of their great tour contain some of the finest pieces of travel writing ever produced: they are magnificent historical documents and also portraits of two extraordinary personalities. In the vivid prose of these two famous men of letters, the Highlands and the Western Islands spring to life. The juxtaposition of the two very different accounts creates an unsurpassed portrait of a society which was utterly alien to the Europe of the Enlightenment, and which was straining on the brink of calamitous change. These great masterpieces, entertaining, profound, and marvellously readable are also our last chronicles of a lost age and people.
The Club
Author: Leo DamroschPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300244967
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as “the Club.” In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the “odd couple” Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth-century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own.
Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James BoswellPublisher:
ISBN: 9783375151553
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James BoswellPublisher: London : T. Cadwell and W. Davies
ISBN:
Category : Hebrides
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Wreck of the Corsaire
Author: William Clark RussellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James BoswellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Author: James Boswell