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Original Title:	London Journal, 1762-1763
ISBN:	0300093012 (ISBN13: 9780300093018)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Boswell's Journals
Characters:	James Boswell
Setting:	London, England,1762(United Kingdom)

London Journal, 1762-1763 (Boswell's Journals)

James Boswell

Paperback | Pages: 412 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 536 Users | 55 Reviews

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In 1762 James Boswell, then twenty-two years old, left Edinburgh for London. The famous Journal he kept during the next nine months is an intimate account of his encounters with the high-life and the low-life in London. Frank and confessional as a personal portrait of the young Boswell, the Journal is also revealing as a vivid portrayal of life in eighteenth-century London. This new edition includes an introduction by Peter Ackroyd, which discusses Boswell’s life and achievement.

“Boswell was the most charming companion in the world, and London becomes his dining-room and his playground, his club and his confessional. No celebrant of the London world can ignore his book.”—Peter Ackroyd, from the introduction. 

“Boswell was the most charming companion in the world, and London becomes his dining-room and his playground, his club and his confessional. No celebrant of the London world can ignore his book.”—Peter Ackroyd, from the Introduction. 

Praise for the earlier edition:

"[The journal is] more perceptive and uninhibited and magically alive than one could have hoped. . . . Boswell transforms the most trifling occurrences into adventures, and imparts to the reader his own surpassing lust for experience and his keen sense of the fascination of life."—Austin Wright, Virginia Quarterly Review  

"The journal is admirably edited and annotated.”—W. H. Auden, New Yorker

 

The late Frederick Pottle, Sterling Professor of English Emeritus at Yale University, was editor, bibliographer, and biographer of James Boswell. Peter Ackroyd is the author of London: The Biography, The Life of Thomas More, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, and many other books.

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Title	:	London Journal, 1762-1763 (Boswell's Journals)
Author	:	James Boswell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 412 pages
Published	:	July 11th 2004 by Yale University Press (first published 1763)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Biography. Classics. Literature. 18th Century. Autobiography. Memoir

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Remarkable companion to Boswell's Life of Johnson. While Johnson is contemplating the universe is his acid, arch-Tory, hilariously posturing, wonderfully erudite and schoolboyishly naive way, young Boswell is lurching door to door and whore to whore in search of something to do with his life. That something was Sam Johnson, but the biographer himself is almost equally an unforgetable portrait of ambition in the time of men of letters.

I wanted a print book to take along on a trip, for the plane ride. Something paperback (so not too heavy) and long enough that it would last, even if I ended up with a lot of reading time.This is the book I pulled from my TBR shelf.But when I first started reading it, I thought, "I'm not going to be able to finish." It is a journal, after all. And who are all these people? They mean nothing to me . . .But after I'd finished the first 30 pages or so, I found myself enjoying it -- so much so that

This journal could furnish incidents enough for several bawdy playsone might be Louisa; or, Boswell Aflame, Inflamd: 25 DecemberThe night before I did not rest well. I was really violently in love with Louisa. I thought she did not care for me. I thought that if I did not gain her affections, I would appear despicable to myself.2 JanuaryI approached Louisa with an uneasy tremor. I sat down. I toyed with her. Yet I was not inspired by Venus. I felt a rather delicate sensation of love than a

This was more interesting and entertaining than I expected! A glimpse into the daily life of a young Scottish man trying to make his way in the big city of London and English society. Boswell seemed to be equally moved by powerful sermons and saucy whores.

I have read and read most of Boswell's writing.

Although it is quite repetitive, and can be somewhat dull (save for the 18th century prostitutes and venereal disease) it does give a decent look into London city life in the 1700-early 1800s. Boswell writes of his personal account of trying to get a post in the guard (hopefully in the London city center) and while attempting to become a writer. Boswell, A Scot, who tries to do away from his heritage and instead take on the superiority of British society can be tiresome. But, hidden in the

In which young Jamie Boswell dissipates himself in London against his fathers wishes, sows his oats, gets the clap, drinks lots of tea, fails to obtain a post in the army and finally meets the venerable Dr. Johnson all in the familiar haunts of the cities of Westminster and London, from St. Jamess Park to St. Pauls Churchyard.