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One of the best biographies ever.......2002-05-31
John Wain condenced 17 volumes of autobiography into this taught, energetic, flowing narrative. I was captivated!
A look inside the mind of an engaging scoundrel.......2000-05-30
James Boswell has been called everything from an engaging gentleman to a vicious scoundrel. A true man of his times, Boswell combined naivete with crudity, tenderness with violence, courtesy with thoughtlessness, enthusiasm with snobbery, true religious feeling with wanton depravity.
But how can so many contradictory traits exist alongside each other in the same man? And how does that man see himself? This selection of Boswell's journals attempts to answer that question. Editor John Wain tells Boswell's story in Boswell's words, through excerpts from his journals, letters, legal pleadings, and published writings. We learn about his love life (in some detail), his marriage, his career, his impossible relationship with his domineering Whig father, and his emotional struggles in writing the _Life of Johnson_. We also get a concrete feeling for Boswell's emotional instability, his sense that he would never be good enough for his father (and he was right, unfortunately), and his tremendous guilt over his infidelity.
This book is an excellent introduction to James Boswell. I definitely recommend it.
Book Description
In 1762 James Boswell, then twenty-two years old, left Edinburgh for London. The famous Journal he kept during the next nine months is an intimate account of his encounters with the high-life and the low-life in London. Frank and confessional as a personal portrait of the young Boswell, the Journal is also revealing as a vivid portrayal of life in eighteenth-century London. This new edition includes an introduction by Peter Ackroyd, which discusses Boswell's life and achievement.
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Fabulous!.......2005-03-31
I read this book to prepare for a trip to London a few months ago and loved it! What an honest journal that sums up the wonderful daily life of a prolific man. There are no big ideas or revelations but I got so much out of each and every detail Boswell offered. Extremely insightful and engrossing!
Where's the video?.......2002-09-17
Tired of all those solemn "memoirs" and "remembrances" that are on the library shelves? Well, this one will knock your socks off!
If Boswell were alive today and using videotape instead of a quill pen, the talk shows would have him as their constant guest.
I'm not sure if I'd want to have known him, but this lecher, alcoholic, and moocher had a keen eye for London high- and low-life that will keep you hanging on every page.
Pure delight.......2002-02-19
To anyone who, like myself, has found a real and deep enjoyment in reading the Life of Johnson, I can only recommend Boswell's own diaries. The first volume - his 'London Journal' starting in the year he met Johnson - is pure delight. Boswell always saw himself as a character acting in the drama of life, and he could be almost excruciatingly honest and objective about himself. His voluminous diaries record all the trivia, triumphs, and despairs of his own life, day by day and year by year.
My own opinion is that Boswell is a far better diarist than Pepys, though not nearly as well known in this respect. There is a fascination about seeing his whole life recorded from youth to shortly before his death, with all the same force and liveliness that went into his Life of Johnson. His inner life is at least as entertaining as his outer life. He seems totally determined to write about himself as he wrote about Johnson - warts and all.
It's this courage and honesty about himself that makes us respect Boswell even when he is at his most foolish or debauched. The diaries make it extremely clear that he was no idiot, and that the Life of Johnson was no fortuitous masterpiece. From his diaries he comes across as a deeply sensitive, romantic, self-conscious man. Charming, likeable, and often playing the clown to his acquaintances; but often filled with self-doubt, frustration, insecurity, and a deep depression that he concealed from all except his closest friends.
We see Boswell puffed up with vanity at some silly social success, and the same Boswell quietly devoting large amounts of time and money that he could ill spare to helping people in trouble. We see Boswell in love again and again with totally unsuitable women, and eventually marrying the cousin who had always been a good, close friend rather than an object of wild romance. We see Boswell in his vibrant youth, and his tragic final years, as an alcoholic filled with bitter shame and despair, yet unable to reform.
His diaries are certainly one of the great undiscovered treasures of literature. They deserve to be a lot better known than they are.
A timeless classic.......1999-11-19
It has been quite awhile since I have read this book but and can remember few details. What sticks in the mind is the complete humanity displayed by its author. Frankly, Boswell is unlikable and hardly to be admired but his passion and candidness make this book very readable today. Not many tomes from this era can make this claim. It is a must read for both those interested in Johnson and those students of the human condition.
Why is the rest out of print?.......1999-11-04
Here's a Boswell diary entry. 'Good heavens, what a loose did we give to amorous dalliance! ...In a moment I felt myself animated with the strongest power of love, and, from my dearest creature's kindness, had a most luscious feast. Proud of my godlike vigour, I soon resumed the noble game. I was in full glow of health. Sobriety had preserved me from effeminacy and weakness, and my bounding blood beat quick and high alarms. A more voluptuous night I never enjoyed. Five times I was fairly lost in supreme rapture... Louisa had an exquisite mixture of delicacy and wantonness that made me enjoy her with more relish. Indeed I could not help roving in fancy to the embraces of some other ladies which my lively imagination strongly pictured. I don't know if that was altogether fair... I have painted this night as well as I could. The description is faint; but I surely may be styled a Man of Pleasure.' (12 January 1763) Indeed. Get hold of this book immediately.
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Title: The Journals of James Boswell: 1762-1795. (book reviews)
Author: Donna T. Andrew
Publication:
Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1993
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: v28
Issue: n3
Page: p587(2)
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Gustavo Pérez Firmat arrived in America with his family at the age of eleven. Victims of Castro's revolution, the Pérez family put their life on hold, waiting for Castro's fall. Each Christmas, along with other Cuban families in the neighborhood, they celebrated with the cry, "Next year in Cuba." Growing up in the Dade County school system, and graduating from college in Florida, Pérez Firmat was insulated from America by the nurturing sights and sound of Little Havana. It wasn't until he left home to attend graduate school at the University of Michigan that he realized, as the Cuba of his birth receded farther into the past, he had become no longer wholly Cubano, but increasingly a man of two heritages and two countries.
Customer Reviews:
A book for all ages.......2001-02-01
As a young person who was born in the United States but whose parents were born in Cuba, identity has never been black and white for me--although it has always been blue, red, and white. This book crystallized so many emotions that I had felt my entire life but had never really examined. If you are 22 and have never been to Cuba, but still call yourself Cuban or if you are 60 and think if your childhood on that island paradise everyday--this book will make you laugh, it might make you cry, and it will certainly make you think. For over forty years now Cubans have been hoping for that "next year" to come to fruition, but we are still waiting. This book will make you long for "next year" like never before. Read it--you will never forget you did.
Will next year be THE year?.......2000-09-06
That is the question that has echoed throughout the Cuban exile community for over 40 years. As the older generation fades, the new generation continues to ask, to wonder, if the next year will finally be the year when Cuba will be free and Castro will be, and there's no other way to say it, dead.
Perez Firmat and I stand a generation apart, yet reading this book, there really was no difference. The Cuban-American experience has much to do with yearning, an emotion that this book succeeded in evoking. We yearn for the Cuba we hear our relatives talk about. We yearn for the freedom of this never-seen homeland, to see the end of the tyranny. And we also yearn for this America, for the apple pie and Coca-Cola life we see and hear all around us, yet can never fully belong to.
Being Cuban-American is not only complex, it is two extremes thrown together. Finding our identity as we straddle two nations is a challenge even now, 40 years later, and even to people like me, first-generation Cuban-Americans. You are forced to ask over and over again, What am I? I am not Cuban, I was born here in the U.S. But I am not American, my "Cuban-ness" is such a strong, obvious part of me it cannot be denied.
Next Year in Cuba does a great job of giving an eloquent, humorous voice to this complexity. It's a great read on the Cuban-American culture, sure to give a better insight and appreciation to those wanting to know more.
Honest and Very Funny.......2000-05-14
That we Cubans and Cuban-Americans can find humor in any situation--even the most tragic and overwhelming--is a testament to our strength. This book is a poignant, funny, and sometimes sad tale of one man's struggle to find his identity. It is a very personal self-examination, but one that most of us (all us "hyphenated" people) can relate to. Are you Cuban? Are you American? Are you "of Cuban descent"? Are you Cuban-American? Are you one person at home and another at work? These are difficult questions, and he walks us through the even more difficult process of trying to find an answer. Does he have an answer? Yes and no. The author also explores the Cuban community's rise from its initial status as an underprivileged, immigrant, "exile" community, to its present role as an assimilated, politically active, financially powerful ethinic force. All of this adds more depth to his own personal identity issues. The book is fascinating, thoughful, and full of relatives we can all look at and say "I have an aunt/uncle/mother/father/etc. just like that!"
In the wake of the Elian Gonzalez saga, I just hope everyone reads this and remembers how and why we got here. Thank you, Professor Firmat.
A touching yet humorous look one's Cuban-American roots........2000-03-28
This book made me come to terms with what being a Cuban born American means to me. Perez Firmat shares his own personal and sometimes painful experiences with the readers. In doing so he made it easier to define and understand my own experience as a Cuban-American who loves the United States yet has a yearning to gain a deeper understanding of his own Cuban roots.
Very touching.......1999-10-19
I am a first generation Cuban-American, and I was able to really appreciate some of the author's struggles and experiences. This book is not just for those who were born in Cuba, for for their children as well..Read it...
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Title: El exilio de Miami rompe con Bush.(supuesta oposición de cubanos en Estados Unidas a normas del presidente George W. Bush contra Cuba )
Author: Pablo Rubim Ferreira
Publication:
Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 10, 2003
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Issue: 1397
Page: 44(4)
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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on December 28, 1997. The length of the article is 2225 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: 'El principal enemigo de la reconciliación es el gobierno', dice el obispo del exilio cubano en Miami, Agustín Aleido.(TT: Agustín Aleido, bishop of the Cuban exiles in Miami, says, 'the main enemy of reconciliation is the government')(Interview)
Author: Pascal Beltrán del Río
Publication:
Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 28, 1997
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Issue: n1104
Page: p38(2)
Article Type: Interview
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Title: Espionaje y subversión en Cuba. (incluye artículo relacionado sobre las versiones de Cuba y las de Miami, Florida sobre los ataque a hoteles cubanos)(TT: Espionage and subversion in Cuba) (TA: includes related article about Cuba's and Miami, Florida's versions regarding the attacks on Cuban hotels)
Publication:
Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 18, 1997
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: v4
Issue: n239
Page: p8(1)
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Title: Infamia en Miami.(injusticia contra Cubanos)(TT: Infamy in Miami.)(TA: Injustice against Cubans)(Artículo Breve)
Author: Cuauhtémoc Amezcua Dromundo
Publication:
Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: December 26, 2001
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 48
Issue: 2532
Page: 39
Article Type: Artículo Breve
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Title: Miami o la provincia más próspera de Cuba: la cubana es una minoría muy influyente en Estados Unidos. Ni Bush ni Kerry lo ignoran, y por ello hay que leer sus declaraciones sobre la isla como cortejo del voto cubano rumbo a noviembre. Mientras tanto, muchos cubanos ven a la "provincia virtual" de Miami con optimismo.(influencia electoral, internacional de cubanos en Estados Unidos)(posibles cambios en relación con Cuba)
Author: Carlos Alberto Montaner
Publication:
Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2004
Publisher: Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 6
Issue: 67
Page: 32(2)
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Title: Murió el denominado negocio del anticastrismo. (la muerte de Jorge Mas Canosa en Miami)(TT: The so-called anti-Castro movement has died) (TA: the death of Jorge Mas Canosa in Miami)
Author: Javier Rodríguez
Publication:
Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: December 4, 1997
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: v44
Issue: n2320
Page: p50(2)
Article Type: Biography
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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on July 15, 1999. The length of the article is 782 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Nuevos conflictos con Balseros.(Miami, Florida)(TT: New conflicts with boat people.)(TA: Miami, Florida)
Author: Gustavo Lafarge
Publication:
Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 15, 1999
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: 6
Issue: 333
Page: 5
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on August 31, 2001. The length of the article is 1549 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: ¿Qué ha pasado para que los Grammy Latinos ya no se celebren en Miami? El clásico enfrentamiento entre los que tienen derecho a dar una fiesta y los que lo tienen a protestar por el tipo de invitados. (Iberoamérica).(TT: What happened with the Grammys? the classical confrontation between those who have the right to protest and those with the right to party.)
Author: Gina Montaner
Publication:
Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 31, 2001
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 52(3)
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