Boswell's Edinburgh Journals 1767-1786James Boswell's relish for life, unflinching honesty and wide social contacts make him one of the raciest and most entertaining of all diarists. This is a new edition of the journals he kept while making his living as an advocate in eighteenth-century Edinburgh. Hugh Milne's introduction and notes remove the barriers that time has placed between Boswell and ourselves. The result is a book in which an extraordinary personality lives before us upon the page. |
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