Dimensions
160 x 235 x 40mm
A first paperback edition of the celebrated definitive biography of Samuel Johnson's amanuensis - once dismissed as a moral reprobate but here proven to be an outstanding scholar and writer.
The sensational discovery of Boswell's private papers and personal journals in the 1920s and 30s in Ireland and Scotland provide the basis for this moving re-appraisal. Here is Boswell, the Scot who loved London - biographer, journalist, laird, advocate, social lion, incurable rake, lover, charmer, exhibitionist and drunken sot.
What better subject for a full, frank and moving biography of the man who frequented the fashionable drawing rooms as well as the unsavoury underworld of 18th century London.
