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Authors: Adam Sisman
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With great wit, Sisman here tells the story of Boswell's presumptuous task--the making of the greatest biography of all time. Sisman traces the friendship betwe
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"Born in Edinburgh, the 'Athens of the North', a Scot who hated living in Scotland and nourished a lifelong love affair with London, Boswell was biographer, jou
The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell
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Making Boswell's Life of Johnson
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This Element documents the details and implications of Boswell's risky publication history. It argues that the success of the first edition of the Life of Samue