A Life of James Boswell

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  • A Life of James Boswell Book Detail

  • Author : Peter Martin
  • Release Date : 2002-04-30
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 644
  • ISBN 13 : 9780300093124
  • File Size : 11,11 MB
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A Life of James Boswell by Peter Martin PDF Summary

Book Description: "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

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