Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778-82 (The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell)

by James Boswell

Joseph W. Reed and Frederick A. Pottle

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It's 1778, Boswell is now aproaching his 40th birthday, married with three young children and a fourth on its way. His father, the laird of Auchinleck, is ill and dying. Boswell himself is full of both the doubts of middle age and the pleasures of family life. Far removed from the rakish, scholarly and amorous adventures described in earlier journals, "Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck" records Boswell's daily trials and incidents as he struggles to manage the family estate of Auchinleck in Ayrshire. Full of momentary detail and flashes of self-knowledge, Boswell's journal is an insight into the mind of the mature diarist.
  • ISBN10 0070515204
  • ISBN13 9780070515208
  • Publish Date 1 January 1977
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 14 August 1992
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Imprint McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 570
  • Language English