The Heart of Boswell: Six Journals in One VolumeMcGraw-Hill, 1981 - 407 pages Abridges the first six volumes of the Yale series. Here we follow Boswell to the completion of those tasks he had more or less assigned to himself: to meet Mr. Johnson, to study law, to vie with his father, to travel over Europe, to confront M. Rousseau, to confront M. Voltaire, to rescue Corsica, to become a published author, and to find a wife. These events carry Boswell through twelves years of his life. |
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