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Facts and Inventions

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

Facts and Inventions

By James Boswell

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About the book

James Boswell (1740-1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This selection of Boswell's journalistic writings offers a new angle on the history of journalism, and an original perspective on a complex literary personality.

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9780300141269

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2014

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1

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Facts and Inventions

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Hardcover

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