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I was reading this in daily installments sent by e-mail from DailyLit.com. Unfortunately, I found that to be an an abridged edition, plus it was proving hard to follow in e-mailed chunks, so I've since been reading it in book form. My biggest obstacle at this point is that there are so many dramatic personae that it's a little hard to follow, particularly given Boswell's habit of quoting long extracts from Johnson's letters. It's fueled my interest in the 18th century, though, and I'm doing some
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Mar 06, 2023
Jasmin
marked it as to-read
