00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004161 20200508202613 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 0-85229-531-6a6 010-0520004161 eng 081.20 081.20/BOS/G James Boswell Great Book of The Western World 07441 New York Gale Thomson 2005 v. 618 hlm Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. Volume 41 served the history, philosophy and works of James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck and 1st Baronet was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the eldest son of a judge, Alexander Boswell, 8th Laird of Auchinleck and his wife Euphemia Erskine, Lady Auchinleck. Boswell's mother was a strict Calvinist, and he felt that his father was cold to him. The heir to the estate of Auchinleck in Ayrshire, which he inherited on the death of his father, Boswell is best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson. His name has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer. Anthopologies