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This bookis part of the centenary celebration of James Boswell's (1906-1971) birth. His work is being honoured by displays at Tate Britain, the Prints and Drawings Gallery at the British Museum and a one man retrospective at Square One Gallery, London. One of its most salient features is a remarkably prophetic set of anti-war satirical drawings done during Boswell's 1943 posting to Iraq. Richard Cork has said of these, 'I know of no parallel in English art for Boswell's ability to expose and denigrate the senseless waste of a conflict which official war artists approached with such muted emotions. Their relevance to today's conflict is poignant'. Boswell, a New Zealander who came to England in 1925 to study painting, was soon involved in the radical movement of the Left and became, throughout the thirties, its most vibrant artist with fierce satirical drawings that appeared inLeft Review , of which he was Art Editor,Our Time ,The Daily Workerand other left wing publications. He was also a ... Read more

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Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring through the Lowlands and Highlands of Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Inchkenneth and Iona. Both kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published separate accounts of their journey. These works contain some of the finest pieces of travel writing ever produced; they are also magnificent historical documents as well as portraits of two extraordinary men of letters. Together they paint a vivid picture of a society that was still almost unknown to the Europe of the Enlightenment. Entertaining, profound, and marvelously readable, they are a valuable chronicle of a lost age and a fascinating people.

For the first time, Ronald Black's edition brings together Johnson's and Boswell's accounts of each of the six stages of the two men's journey-Lowlands, Skye, Coll, Mull and back to the mainland. Illustrated with prints by Thomas Rowlandson, it includes a critical introduction, translations of the Latin texts, and brief notes. ... Read more

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So wonderful to have Boswell's and Johnson's comments on the same topic side by side
It is inexpressibly lovely to read about a place in their travels (say, the isle of Mull or Coll) in the words of Johnson, and then in the words of Boswell. So you don't have to read the entire journal of the trip to the Hebrides that Boswell wrote, and then the entire journal of the trip written by Johnson, to compare their reactions to the same place, but rather you have their "takes" on each leg of the journey side by side. ... Read more

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In 1773 Samuel Johnson and James Boswell made their celebrated journey through the Highlands of Scotland and the Hebrides. Johnson published his great account, the "Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland" in 1775, and it became one of the most acute - and popular - social commentaries of its age. The 33 year old Boswell composed his more anecdotal and high-spirited journal, "A Tour to the Hebrides", in 1786; it is chiefly a revelatory portrait of Johnson as he ventured into the unfamiliar regions of a remote part of Britain. This edition, in which the two accounts are presented side-by-side, page-by-page, makes it possible to compare both versions of a single experience. Johnson's text is presented in full, while Boswell's writing has been edited so that his narrative stands adjacent to the same portion of Johnson's text. Johnson's account is augmented by a selection of the letters written during the journey to his friend, Mrs Hester Thrale. The book is divided into sections covering the successive stages of the journey, so that each phase of the trip is allotted a chapter of its own.The book also contains an editorial introduction, a glossary of names, a note on the publishing history of the two narratives and scholarly notation. Numerous contemporary illustrations accompany the text, depicting the flavour of the region as the travellers encountered it more than two centuries ago. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Boswell's diaries, written while he was a practising advocate in Edinburgh, describe the high and low life of the Scottish capital. James Boswell's diaries, written while he was practising as an advocate in Edinburgh between 1767 and 1786, provide a vivid picture of the high and low life of the Scottish capital. A friend of philosophers like David Hume and Adam Smith, Boswell also mixed with the criminal classes, was a prodigious drinker and frequented the town's brothels. Each day he wrote down all that he had done and seen with complete frankness. ... Read more

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Marshall Waingrow's opus magnum is not a corrected edition of the printed text of Boswell's Life of Johnson. Rather, Waingrow presents an edition of the manuscript which enables us to follow Boswell's compositional process through successive revisions. ... Read more

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No Abolition of Slavery - Or the Universal Empire of Love, A poem is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by James Boswell is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of James Boswell then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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A sparkling record of a tour through Scotland in the wake of Johnson and Boswell. ... Read more

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The Bill Brysons of 1930s Great Britain
Hesketh Pearson and Hugh Kingsmill, thirty-something Britishers, ex-college pals and underemployed writers, got the idea to tramp around 1930s Scotland re-creating a similar trip by the famous Samuel Johnson and James Boswell in the 1760s."Skye High" contains the observations, and sometimes the transcript of, their trip.Much of the text takes the form of snippets of dialogue, as though it were a play script.

The tone is humorous, even witty, but light as cotton candy.You won't find anything resembling social commentary or lyrical evocations of the Highlands natural beauty.Just two young Brits, old pals, teasing each other mercilessly and cracking each other up.People of Scottish descent may even be perturbed by the authors' tendency to make slight fun of the natives.

The humor is nevertheless infectious, and it's fun enough to read (like Bill Bryson in that way).But the whole book comes to a grinding halt in the last 30 pages, which are devoted to the sermons of some old eccentric 18th-century preacher, connected to the Scotland story only because Boswell was a fan of the sermonizer.It had roughly the same effect on the previously light-hearted story as if Bryson had replaced the last chapter of "A Walk in the Woods" with a lengthy discussion of the theology of Cotton Mather. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

Product Description
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more