THE YALE EDITIONS OF THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF JAMES BOSWELL

Boswell's account of his first year in London written when he was just twenty-two, but remained unpublished in his lifetime and suppressed after his death.

James Frederick A. Pottle was Sterling Professor of English Emeritus at Yale University, and editor, bibliographer and biographer of James Boswell.

This fabulously bawdy, mischievous, arrogant journal is the pride and joy of its author, James Boswell (future biographer of Samuel Johnson, but for now an immature youth). We enter his life just after his 22nd birthday, on the brink of his move to London. Hes visited before and was intrigued (even after his little bout of VD from a lady of the night under Waterloo Bridge). He moves to London and sets up his life among societys most elite.

Boswells life is the perfect mix of high-society boredom delayers (the Society of Beefsteaks, cheese adventures, and tea) and hormonally-induced rebellion (seedy bars and moping). All that in the most fantastic, 18th century language you could hope to find.

370 Pages.