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The Earlier Years, 1740-1769
出版Pearson Education New Zealand Limited, 1966
ISBN04345988019780434598809
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YnYCeUyEniAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Why a biography of Boswell? Because much information about him occurs in unpublished and unliterary sources; because the autobiographical matter now available is so voluminous and fragmented that only special knowledge can reduce it to an intelligible picture; because readers of today want a present-day synthesis. Fredrick A. Pottle has devoted a lifetime to the study of Boswell better than Boswell knew himself. His unparallelled knowledge and graceful style qualify him uniquely to convert the welter of information- much of it recently recovered- into a convincing portrait of James Boswell: Scot, lawyer, hypochondriac, rake, show-off-above all, author. Eagerly awaited fir more than a decade, and compelling narrative. The long line of lairds of Auchinleck are shown pressing on Boswell's consciousness. His childhood and adolescence for the first time take coherent shape. His religious turmoils, which carried him through Methodism and Pythagoreanism, are absorbingly reconstructed. His young married women of his own circle, his lively kept- mistress, his occasional recourse to street-girls, are frankly presented as essential but subordinate details. We are never long allowed to lose sight of Boswell the intrepid traveller, the admired author, the hard-working and brilliant criminal lawyer, the odd and lovable young man who charmed the Margrave of Baden-Dur-lach, the brilliantly imaginative study emerges a man we can know almost perfectly: a paradoxical character, shrewd of head and foolish in behaviour, vain and disarmingly honest, sensual and pious, and warm- hearted, who somehow in the Age of Enlightenment managed to think and write like a man of the twentieth century." - Frederick A. Pottle.