{"product_id":"boswells-london-journal-1762-1763-used-hardcover-frederick-a-pottle","title":"Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 (Used Hardcover) - Frederick A. Pottle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1762 James Boswell, then twenty-two years old, left Edinburgh for London. The famous \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for the earlier edition:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"[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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVirginia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eQuarterly Review\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The journal is admirably edited and annotated.”—W. H. Auden, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e: The Biography, The Life of Thomas More,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlbion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e: The Origins of the English Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and many other books.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: No dustjacket. Cover, pages and binding unmarked and intact. Copyright 1950.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e0420MLS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reach Literacy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51854213251296,"sku":"History","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0431\/0794\/2562\/files\/OIP_88250c39-1df0-41b2-8980-9a61e1a0e749.webp?v=1776700341","url":"https:\/\/reachareader.com\/products\/boswells-london-journal-1762-1763-used-hardcover-frederick-a-pottle","provider":"Reach Literacy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}