The Bedside Book of Discoveries [antikvár]

THE BOSWELL DETECTIVE STORYBy Hamilton BassoThe author most talked about in recent years was a brilliant, hard-drinking, hard-wenching Scotsman who died more than a hundred and fifty years ago. His name is James Boswell, bio-grapher of our great i8th-century figure, Sámuel Johnson. The book that caused the stir is Boswe/I's l^ondon Journal: 1762-1763, applauded by critics as one of the most remarkable achievements in English letters.Until a few years ago Boswell's journal was not known to exist. The story of its discovery, to-gether with a great treasure-trove of more than four thousand other Boswell papers, reads üke detective fiction.The drama begins about 1840 in Boulogne. On to the scene walks one Major Stone, an