The Life of Samuel Johnson V4 is a biographical work written by James Boswell, first published in 1848. It is a comprehensive account of the life and times of Samuel Johnson, a prominent 18th-century English writer, poet, and lexicographer. The book includes a detailed journal of Johnson's tour to the Hebrides, a group of islands off the west coast of Scotland, which he undertook with Boswell in 1773. The tour was a significant event in Johnson's...