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Title: Boswell's Life of Johnson
Author: James Boswell
Editor: Charles Grosvenor Osgood
Release date: May 12, 2006 [eBook #1564]
Most recently updated: January 24, 2025
Language: English
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BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON
By James Boswell
Abridged and edited, with an introduction
by Charles Grosvenor Osgood
Professor of English at Princeton University
Preface
In making this abridgement of Boswell's Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell's criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson's opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in
Boswell's day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common enough,
I dare say, among its devotees, of opening the book of random, and reading w…