James Boswell Audio Books

Charming, vibrant, witty and edifying, The Life of Samuel Johnson is a work of great obsession and boundless reverence.

Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written.

Boswell's biography of his friend and hero Samuel Johnson is an acknowledged classic, full of humorous anecdote and rich characterization. Johnson's complex humanity...

Boswell's biography of his friend and hero Samuel Johnson is an acknowledged classic, full of humorous anecdote and rich characterization. Johnson's complex humanity...

Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, is a milestone in the development of biographical writing, a treasure-house of Johnson's witticisms and opinions, and a window on his social circle that is packed with incidental detail of 18th-century life and concerns.

Dramatization by Robin Brooks of James Boswell's biography of Samuel Johnson, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Johnson's birth....

This is the third volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson.

This is the fourth volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson.

In 1773, 63-year-old literary giant Samuel Johnson joined James Boswell, a 32-year-old Scottish...

James Boswell forever changed the genre of biography when he painstakingly transformed a scholarly profusion of detail into a perceptive, lifelike portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson.