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London Journal 1762-1763

✍ Scribed by Boswell, James

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd;Penguin Classics
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at twenty-two, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal, not discovered for more than 150 years, is a deft, frank and artful record of adventures ranging from his vividly recounted love affair with a Covent Garden actress to his first amusingly bruising meeting with Samuel Johnson, to whom Boswell would later become both friend and biographer. The London Journal 1762-63 is a witty, incisive and compellingly candid testament to Boswell's prolific talents.

✦ Subjects

Autobiography: Literary;HISTORY--Modern--18th Century;Places & peoples: general & pictorial works;HISTORY -- Modern -- 18th Century

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