London Journal 1762-1763
Title | London Journal 1762-1763 PDF eBook |
Author | James Boswell |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 2015-06-04 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0241215455 |
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.
London Journal
Title | London Journal PDF eBook |
Author | James Boswell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1950 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763
Title | Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763 PDF eBook |
Author | James Boswell |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 413 |
Release | 2019-06-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1474464580 |
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 ForewordIn 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 a Foreword by Peter Ackroyd, which discusses Boswell's life and achievement.Key Features:* Features a new Foreword by Peter Ackroyd, author of London: The Biography* This edition of Boswell's classic text has long been recognised as THE authoritative version* Edited by the renowned Boswell expert, the late Frederick A. Pottle* Includes a first-class introduction and informative notes throughout
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Title | The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. PDF eBook |
Author | James Boswell |
Publisher | London : T. Cadwell and W. Davies |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 1807 |
Genre | Hebrides |
ISBN |
Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764
Title | Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764 PDF eBook |
Author | James Boswell |
Publisher | London : Heinemann |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 1952 |
Genre | Authors, Scottish |
ISBN |
The Heart to Artemis
Title | The Heart to Artemis PDF eBook |
Author | Bryher |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 2017-04-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1787204294 |
Bryher (1894-1985)—adventurer, novelist, publisher—flees Victorian Britain for the raucous streets of Cairo and sultry Parisian cafes. Amidst the intellectual circles of the twenties and thirties, she develops relationships with Marianne Moore, Freud, Paul Robeson, her longtime partner H.D., Stein, and others. This compelling memoir, first published in 1962, reveals Bryher’s exotic childhood, her impact on modernism, and her sense of social justice by helping over 100 people escape from the Nazis. “A work so rich in interest, so direct, revealing, and, above all, thought-provoking that this reader found it the most consistently exciting book of its kind to appear in many years.”—The New York Times
The End of Vandalism
Title | The End of Vandalism PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Drury |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2015-02-24 |
Genre | Humorous stories |
ISBN | 9781910400050 |
A contemporary classic of American fiction