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Samuel Johnson and James Boswell

<b>Samuel Johnson and James Boswell</b> <i>updated 8/22/2009</i>
Samuel Johnson and James Boswell updated 8/22/2009
Item# ISBN 0917466357
$12.00

Product Description

The 39 books by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell on this CD include Boswell's Life of Johnson, Johnson's Lives of the Poets.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books are organized for easy access. Individual books are in plain text format. You can open these books by clicking on the titles in this index page with your Web browser or a recent Windows-based word processor. In addition, Boswell's Life of Johnson is also provided in a single file in Word (.doc) format, with internal links.

You can see the complete table of contents below. Use the Find function on your browser (under Edit) to search for a specific book title.

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
    • volume 3 -- Tragedies
  • 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
  • Dr.  Johnson's Works in Nine volumes
    • Volume 1 -- Life Poems and Tales
    • Volume 3 -- The Rambler volume 2
    • Volume 4 -- the Adventurer and Idler
    • Volume 5 -- miscellaneous pieces
    • Volume 6 -- reviews, political tracts and lives of eminent persons
    • Volume 7 -- Lives of the Poets volume 1
    • Volume 8 -- Lives of the Poets volume 2
  • The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen volumes
    • Volume 4 -- The Rambler numbers 171-208 and The Adventurer miscellaneous numbers
    • 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
  • Dr. Johnson and His Circle by John Bailey

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. Dvaid 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)
    • as a single file in Word (.doc) format, with internal links
    • as separate plain text files
      • Volume 1
      • Volume 2
      • Volume 3
      • Volume 4
      • Volume 5
      • Volume 6 (of 6)
  • No Abolition of Slavery, a poem