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  The Life of Samuel Johnson

  by James Boswell, Samuel Johnson

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  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

  by Samuel Johnson, James Boswell

  Poet and essayist Samuel Johnson spent the autumn of 1773 touring the coast of Scotland with his future biographer, James Boswell. Each author produced an account of their sojourn, providing not only excellent travelogues and splendid historical records but also fascinating insights into a celebrated literary friendship.
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  Writers Gone Wild: The Feuds, Frolics, and Follies of Literature's Great Adventurers, Drunkards, Lovers, Iconoclasts, and Misanthropes

  by Bill Peschel

  Truth is stranger than fiction. If you've imagined famous writers to be desk-bound drudges, think again. Writers Gone Wild rips back the (book) covers and reveals the seamy underside of the writing life. Insightful, intriguing, and irresistibly addictive, Writers Gone Wild reveals such fascinating stories as: * The night Dashiell Hammett hired a Chinese prostitute to break up S. J. Perelman's... (more)
• Boswell [Great Books of the Western World Volume 41 of 60]Mortimer J. Alder

  

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  Boswell [Great Books of the Western World Volume 41 of 60]

  The Life of Samuel Johnson

  by James Boswell

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  The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson

  by James Boswell

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  The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1

  The Middle Ages Through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

  by Stephen Greenblatt, M. H. Abrams

  Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published. Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies—thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible— The Norton... (more)
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  Boswell's Presumptuous Task

  The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson

  by Adam Sisman

  James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language. Yet Boswell himself has generally been considered little more than an idiot and condemned by posterity as a lecher and drunk. How could such a fool have written such a book? With great wit, Adam Sisman here tells the story of Boswell's... (more)
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  The Return of Dr. Sam. Johnson, Detector: As Told by James Boswell (Ipl Library of Crime Classics)

  by Lillian De La Torre

  De la Torre makes Samuel Johnson, the 18th century lexicographer and author, and his biographer, James Boswell, into detectives who, like Holmes and Watson, solve crimes with their superior intellects and the aid of science. Boswell narrates the adventures in a style familiar to readers of the Life of Johnson, and de la Torre notes actual cases that inspired the stories: a missing heir who suddenly reappears to... (more)
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  Dr. Sam Johnson, Detector: Being, a Light-hearted Collection of Recently Reveal'd Episodes in the Career of the Great Lexicographer Narrated as from the Pen of James Boswell

  by Lillian De La Torre

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  The Detections of Dr. Sam Johnson: Told As If by James Boswell (Ipl Library of Crime Classics)

  by Lillian De La Torre