Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763
By James BoswellIn 1762 James Boswell, then twenty-two years old, left Edinburgh for London. The famous Journal he kept during the next nine months is an intimate account of his encounters with the high-life and the low-life in London. Frank and confessional as a personal portrait of the young Boswell, the Journal is also revealing as a vivid portrayal of life in eighteenth-century London. This new edition includes an introduction by Peter Ackroyd, which discusses Boswell's life and achievement.
"Boswell was the most charming companion in the world, and London becomes his dining-room and his playground, his club and his confessional. No celebrant of the London world can ignore his book."--Peter Ackroyd, from the introduction
"Boswell was the most charming companion in the world, and London becomes his dining-room and his playground, his club and his confessional. No celebrant of the London world can ignore his book."--Peter Ackroyd, from the Introduction
Praise for the earlier edition:
"[The journal is] more perceptive and uninhibited and magically alive than one could have hoped. . . . Boswell transforms the most trifling occurrences into adventures, and imparts to the reader his own surpassing lust for experience and his keen sense of the fascination of life."--Austin Wright, Virginia Quarterly Review
"The journal is admirably edited and annotated."--W. H. Auden, New Yorker
The late Frederick Pottle, Sterling Professor of English Emeritus at Yale University, was editor, bibliographer, and biographer of James Boswell. Peter Ackroyd is the author of London The Biography, The Life of Thomas More, Albion The Origins of the English Imagination, and many other books.
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 370 pages
- English
- 0300093012
- 9780300093018
About James Boswell
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 i Read More about James Boswell
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