Boswell's Life of Boswell
Author: Evelyn Leavens
Publisher:
Published: 1958-01-01
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9780437544001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author portrays her dog with wonderful illustrations and text.
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A Life of James Boswell
Author: Peter Martin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-04-30
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9780300093124
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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, journalist, laird, advocate, social lion, incurable rake, lover, life of the party, traveller, steadfast friend, endearing charmer, exhibitionist fool, and drunken sot. In this moving biography, Peter Martin assesses Boswell's literary achievements and uncovers the pulsating and dynamic world he thrived in, from the royal courts and the drawing rooms of fashionable ladies and gentlemen to the fleshpots of London's unsavoury underworld and the chambers of the insane. He also poignantly reveals a man in agony, easily misunderstood, relentlessly plagued by hypochondria or melancholia, buffeted like a straw in the wind by a multitude of anxieties and 'horrible imaginings'."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James Boswell
Publisher:
Published: 1826
Total Pages: 438
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLondon Journal 1762-1763
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2015-06-04
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 0241215455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdinburgh-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.
Boswell's Presumptuous Task
Author: Adam Sisman
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780007234295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith 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 between Boswell and Samuel Johnson, his mentor, and provides a fascinating account of Boswell's seven-year struggle to write "The Life of Samuel Johnson."
The King Of California
Author: Mark Arax
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2005-02-16
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 0786752793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fascinating story of a cotton magnate whose voracious appetite for land drove him to create the first big agricultural empire of the Central Valley of California, and shaped the landscape for decades to come. J.G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields." The King of California is the previously untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s,drained one of America 's biggest lakes in an act of incredible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire in the world. Indeed, the sophistication of Boswell 's agricultural operation -from lab to field to gin -- is unrivaled anywhere. Much more than a business story, this is a sweeping social history that details the saga of cotton growers who were chased from the South by the boll weevil and brought their black farmhands to California. It is a gripping read with cameos by a cast of famous characters, from Cecil B. DeMille to Cesar Chavez.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: London : T. Cadwell and W. Davies
Published: 1807
Total Pages: 496
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLondon Journal
Author: James Boswell
Publisher:
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Half-Known World
Author: Robert Boswell
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2011-07-05
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781555970215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rigorous examination of the workings of fiction by the novelist Robert Boswell, "one of America's finest writers" (Tom Perrotta) Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and teaching literature for more than twenty years. In this sparkling collection of essays, he brings this vast experience and a keen critical eye to bear on craft issues facing literary writers. Examples from masters such as Leo Tolstoy, Flannery O'Connor, and Alice Munro illustrate this engaging discussion of what makes great writing. At the same time, Boswell moves readers beyond the classroom, candidly sharing the experiences that have shaped his own writing life. A chance encounter in a hotel bar leads to a fascinating glimpse into his imaginative process. And through the story of a boyhood adventure, Boswell details how important it is for writers to give themselves over to what he calls the "half-known world" of fiction, where surprise and meaning converge.
The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time
Author: Robert McCrum
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781903385838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
