The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Boswell
- First Published: 1785
- Type of Work: Diary
- Principal Characters: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Lord Auchinleck
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing, Diary
- Subjects: Authors or writers, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Scotland or Scottish people, Great Britain
In August, 1773, James Boswell finally succeeded in persuading his distinguished friend Samuel Johnson to accompany him on a tour of his native Scotland, a country for which the learned Dr. Johnson’s scorn was legendary. Boswell kept a detailed journal for most of their journey together, and he published it, in a version edited and revised with the help of the Shakespearian scholar, Edmund Malone, in 1785, as a companion volume to Johnson’s own account, the Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, that had appeared in 1775. Boswell’s original journal was discovered with...
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