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Dorando, A Spanish Tale (1767)

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Dorando, A Spanish Tale
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A fictional tale published anonymously by Boswell in 1767 as a thinly disguised comment to the ongoing legal battle between AJE Stewart and the Duke of Hamilton over the Douglas estates.

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Dorando has been reprinted in 1930, 1974 and 1977 by Elkin Mathews & Marrot, Puckerbrush Press and R. West respectively. Numerous copies are available via AbeBooks.

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On his Grand Tour of Europe in 1764-1765, Boswell visited and befriended the famous philosophers Jean-Jacques Rosseau and François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), and back in Edinburgh he was a personal friend of David Hume.

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