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Samuel Johnson and James Boswell

<b>Samuel Johnson and James Boswell</b> <i>updated 9/13/2007</i>
Samuel Johnson and James Boswell updated 9/13/2007
Item# ISBN 0917466357
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Product Description

The 31 books by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell on this CD include Boswell's Life of Johnson, Johnson's Lives of the Poets.

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Complete Table of Contents:

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

  • A Grammar of the English Language (short)
  • Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
  • The Lives of the Poets
    • Joseph Addison, Richard Savage, Jonathan Swift
    • Gay, Gray, Thomson, Young, and others
    • Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, and Pope
    • Waller, Milton, Cowley
  • The Merry-Thought
    • part 1
    • parts 2, 3, and 4
  • Notes to Shakespeare
    • volume 1 -- Comedies
  • Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language (short)
  • Preface to Shakespeare
  • Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
  • The Vanity of Human Wishes, 1749
  • Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Jerome Lobo, translated by Samuel Johnson
  • Works of Samuel Johnson
    • Volume 1 -- Life Poems and Tales
    • Volume 2 -- The Rambler
    • Volume 4 -- the Adventurer and Idler
      • From the Rambler and the Adventurer (from Volume 4 of the works of Johnson)
    • Volume 5 -- miscellaneous pieces
    • Volume 6 -- reviews, political tracts and lives of eminent persons
    • Volume 7 -- Lives of the Poets
    • Volume 10 -- parliamentary debates
    • Volume 11 -- parliamentary debates
about Samuel Johnson (in addition to Boswell's works)
  • Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan
  • Samuel Johnson by Leslie Stephen

James Boswell (1740-1795)

  • Boswell's Correspondence with the Honorable Andrew Erskine and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica
  • Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira Written by Mr. Dvid Malloch, by James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and Frederick Pottle, 1763
  • Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
  • Life of Johnson (abridged)
  • Life of Johnson (unabridged)
    • Volume 1
    • Volume 2
    • Volume 3
    • Volume 4
    • Volume 5
    • Volume 6 (of 6)
  • No Abolition of Slavery, a poem