Boswell in Extremes 1776-1778
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According to a review in The College English Critic, "... there can be no denying that in the process of reading this engrossing and splendidly produced book we engage ourselves with a breathing, suffering, hoping, all-too-human fellow creature ... if Boswell's journal be not literature, where is literature to be found?"
This is one of the rarest volumes of the Boswell journals, and you'll be lucky to find it for less than £100, although sometimes ex-library copies are sold for less. It might be the inclusion of Boswell's interview with the then dying philosopher David Hume which makes this volume so hard to find, the interview being of interest to a much wider audience than the other Boswell journals. Some copies are usually for sale at AbeBooks
