1986-1989 Boswell: The English Experiment 1785-1789 & Boswell: The Great Biographer 1789-1795

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Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Two volumes. From the Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell. With a frontispiece and ten plates to each volume. Collated complete. A set of detailed and comprehensive historical and biographical studies of the life and work of James Boswell, a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, Life of Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language A great mass of Boswell's diaries, letters, and private papers were recovered from the 1920s to the 1950s, and their publication by Yale University has transformed his reputation. This set contains: Boswell: The English Experiment 1785-1789, 1986. A volume of Boswell's journal dealing with his decision to make the exciting and highly risky shift to the English bar in London following his return to London after the unexpected and unpleasant aftermath of the publication of his popular Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Edited by Irma S. Lustig, an American research associate in English at the University of Pennsylvania and editor, and Frederick Albert Pottle, an American academic recognized as one of the foremost scholars of James Boswell. Boswell: The Great Biographer 1789-1795. The concluding volume of Boswell's journals, covering the final years of his life from the death of his wife in June 1789 to his own death in May 1795. Among other matters, it chronicles his depression and his sense of failure when realising that a position of public consequence will be forever out of his reach. Edited by Marlies K. Danziger, an American Professor Emerita of English at City University of New York, and Frank Brady, an American writer, editor, biographer, and educator.