Publisher's Synopsis
Even if James Boswell hadn't written the The Life of Johnson, he'd be famous for this remarkable memoir of 18th-century London life. His long-lost journal, written at the age of 22, first came to light in the 1920s. With strikingly modern frankness, Boswell recounts his trysts with prostitutes and struggles with depression as well as the lively repartee of Samuel Johnson and his literary circle.