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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Life of James Boswell of Auchinleck with an account of his sayings, doings, and writings. This book, Life of James Boswell Volume 1 , by Fitzgerald Percy Hetherington, is a…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

The latest volume in the Boswell Research Edition contains James Boswell’s correspondence over many years with the overseers of his Auchinleck estate in Ayrshire. The letters and the wealth of…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

While Johnson’s Dictionary remains a monument of scholarship, and his essays and criticism command continuing respect, this biography gives information of the man himself. Through a series of detailed anecdotes…