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Download or read book James Boswell s Life of Johnson written by James Boswell and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third and penultimate volume in the Yale Research Edition's genetic transcription of the manuscript of Boswell's biographical masterwork.
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