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Facts and Inventions : Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell
by James Boswell and James Boswell
Overview
James Boswell (1740-1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a generous and varied selection of Boswell's journalistic writings, most of which have not been published since the eighteenth century. It offers a new angle on the history of journalism, an idiosyncratic view of literature, politics, and public life in late eighteenth-century Britain, and an original perspective on a complex and engaging literary personality.
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- ISBN-13: 9780300141269
- ISBN-10: 0300141262
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publish Date: June 2014
- Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.76 pounds
- Page Count: 496
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