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  • Boswell and the Press

    Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell

    by Donald J. Newman, Paul Tankard, James J. Caudle, Terry Seymour, Celia Barnes, Allan Ingram, Jennifer Preston Wilson, Nigel Aston ...
    Boswell and the Press: Essays on the Ephemeral Writing of James Boswell is the first sustained examination of James Boswell’s ephemeral writing, his contributions to periodicals, his pamphlets, and his broadsides. The essays collected here enhance our comprehension of his interests, capabilities, and proclivities as an author and refine our understanding of how the print environment in which he ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

    by Samuel Johnson, James Boswell ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), a kind of locodescriptive ethnography and Johnson's most important work between his Shakespeare edition and his Lives of the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Delphi Classics)

    by Samuel Johnson, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 21 - Delphi Series Four
    The celebrated Dr. Johnson made a lasting contribution to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer and lexicographer. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Samuel Johnson, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Johnson's life and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

    by James Boswell, Samuel Johnson ...
    Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson's descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade, and agriculture of a society that was new to him. The account in Boswell's diary, published after Johnson's death as The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Journal of Sir Walter Scott

    by Walter Scott ...
    Series Book 87 - Canongate Classics
    This edition of the great Scottish author's personal journal is "truly a classic . . . compelling right to the very last unfinished sentence" ( Scotland on Sunday, UK).The celebrated 18th and 19th century Scottish author of such classics as Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, and The Lady of the Lake delivers what many regard as his greatest work: a day-to-day account of the last six years of his life as he ... Read more

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  • Journey to the Hebrides

    A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

    by Samuel Johnson, James Boswell ...
    Series Book 21 - Canongate Classics
    Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland. Both kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published separate accounts of their journey. These accounts of their great tour contain some of the finest pieces of travel writing ever produced: they are magnificent historical documents and also portraits of two extraordinary ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Diary of John Evelyn (Complete)

    by John Evelyn ...
    The two chief diarists of the age of Charles the Second are, mutatis mutandis, not ill characterized by the remark of a wicked wit upon the brothers Austin. "John Austin," it was said, "served God and died poor: Charles Austin served the devil, and died rich. Both were clever fellows. Charles was much the cleverer of the two." Thus John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys, the former a perfect model of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life of Mary Queen of Scots (Complete)

    by Henry Glassford Bell ...
    A new work on the subject of Mary Queen of Scots runs an eminent risk of being considered a work of supererogation. No period of British history has been more elaborately illustrated than that of her life and reign. She ascended the Scottish throne at a time replete with interest; when the country had awakened from the lethargy of ages, and when the gray dawn of civilization, heralding the full ... Read more

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  • Edinburgh: A Traveller's Reader

    by Prof David Daiches ...
    Series series A Traveller's Companion
    Edinburgh is a city whose history is written on its face. The Old Town on its crowded rock, sloping down from the Castle to Holyroodhouse, has not significantly changed its atmosphere since the turbulent fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when riots, processions, or public executions jammed the High Street. And the very different era that followed the bloody religious wars of the seventeenth ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Complete Works of Horace Walpole (Delphi Classics)

    by Horace Walpole, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 6 - Delphi Series Six
    The eighteenth century man of letters Horace Walpole is accredited with writing the first Gothic novel, ‘The Castle of Otranto’, as well as producing an accomplished range of literary texts in various genres. This comprehensive eBook presents Walpole’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Life of Mary Queen of Scots

    by P.C. Headley ...
    Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.The Life of Mary Queen of Scots is a lengthy biography of the famous queen. ... Read more

    $2.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON - All 6 Volumes in One Edition

    Enriched edition. Including Journal & Diary

    by James Boswell, Grosvenor Osgood, Hunter Reeves ...
    THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON - All 6 Volumes in One Edition encapsulates a comprehensive and nuanced portrait of one of literature's most formidable figures, Samuel Johnson. This anthology not only traces Johnson's intellectual journeys and personal idiosyncrasies but does so through a mosaic of narratives that capture the spirit of 18th-century English literature. The range of literary styles, from ... Read more

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