Life of Johnson

By Boswell, James

Book Id: WPLBN0000674410
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 1.44 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Life of Johnson
Author:	Boswell, James
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


Citation APA MLA Chicago Boswell, B. J. (n.d.). Life of Johnson. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell?s day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common enough, I dare say, among its devotees, of opening the book of random, and reading wherever the eye falls upon a passage of especial interest. All such passages, I hope, have been retained, and enough of the whole book to illustrate all the phases of Johnson?s mind and of his time which Boswell observed.