The Life of Samuel Johnson - Abridged by Charles Grosvenor Osgood

Abridged by Professor Charles Grosvenor Osgood, this edition of James Boswell's 1791 Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. keeps the passages that show Johnson's larger-than-life character, love of society and enquiring mind, and the 18th-century England, particularly London, in which he lived. It has printed page edges.