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Book Description
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

Book Description
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

Book Description
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

One of the best biographies ever
John Wain condenced 17 volumes of autobiography into this taught, energetic, flowing narrative.I was captivated!

A look inside the mind of an engaging scoundrel
James Boswell has been called everything from an engaging gentleman to a vicious scoundrel. A true man of his times, Boswell combined naivete with crudity, tenderness with violence, courtesy with thoughtlessness,enthusiasm with snobbery, true religious feeling with wanton depravity.

But how can so many contradictory traits exist alongside each other inthe same man? And how does that man see himself? This selection ofBoswell's journals attempts to answer that question. Editor John Wain tellsBoswell's story in Boswell's words, through excerpts from his journals,letters, legal pleadings, and published writings. We learn about his lovelife (in some detail), his marriage, his career, his impossiblerelationship with his domineering Whig father, and his emotional strugglesin writing the _Life of Johnson_. We also get a concrete feeling forBoswell's emotional instability, his sense that he would never be goodenough for his father (and he was right, unfortunately), and his tremendousguilt over his infidelity.

This book is an excellent introduction toJames Boswell. I definitely recommend it. ... Read more