James Boswell Audio Books

This is the fourth volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson.

Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, is a milestone in the development of biographical writing, a treasure-house of Johnson's witticisms and opinions, and a window on his social circle that is packed with incidental detail of 18th-century life and concerns.

Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written.

Boswell's biography of his friend and hero Samuel Johnson is an acknowledged classic, full of humorous anecdote and rich characterization. Johnson's complex humanity...

This is the third volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson.

In 1773, 63-year-old literary giant Samuel Johnson joined James Boswell, a 32-year-old Scottish...

Boswell's biography of his friend and hero Samuel Johnson is an acknowledged classic, full of humorous anecdote and rich characterization. Johnson's complex humanity...

James Boswell forever changed the genre of biography when he painstakingly transformed a scholarly profusion of detail into a perceptive, lifelike portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Charming, vibrant, witty and edifying, The Life of Samuel Johnson is a work of great obsession and boundless reverence.

Dr. Samuel Johnson was a poet, essayist, dramatist, and lexicographer.