Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood

A 1917 abridged edition of Boswell's 1791 biography of Samuel Johnson, edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood. It preserves passages illustrating Johnson's mind, conversation, and eighteenth-century England.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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Biographies›Writers, artists, and musicians›Essayists, critics, and journalists›Britain and Ireland

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