The Story of Doctor Johnson; Being an Introduction to Boswell's Life

· 1966

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons Bombay} Calcutta} Macmillan and Co., Ltd. Madras} Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd. Tokyo: Maruzen-Kabushiki-Kaisha The object of this little book is clearly expressed on the title-page; and the title-page might be left to speak for itself, were it not for the inevitable criticism that Boswell needs no introduction. "The most discreet of cicerones" it has been said "is an intruder when we open our old favourite, and, without further magic, retire into that delicious nook of eighteenth-century society[1]."…

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