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London Journal
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This account of London in the late eighteenth-century reveals the musings and happenings of the young man famous for his biography of Samuel Johnson.
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James Boswell
James Boswell (1740-1795) was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer who is best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, as well as the publication of his private papers, journals, and letters.
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