James Boswell

ISBN-13: 9781518792281 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 82 str.

W. Keith Leask

Opis

'Every Scotchman, ' says Sir Walter Scott, 'has a pedigree. It is a national prerogative, as inalienable as his pride and his poverty. My birth was neither distinguished nor sordid.' What, however, was but a foible with Scott was a passion in James Boswell, who has on numerous occasions obtruded his genealogical tree in such a manner as to render necessary some acquaintance with his family and lineage