Abridges the first six volumes of the Yale series. Here we follow Boswell to the completion of those tasks he had more or less assigned to himself: to meet Mr. Johnson, to study law, to vie with his father, to travel over Europe, to confront M. Rousseau, to confront M. Voltaire, to rescue Corsica, to become a published author, and to find a wife. These events carry Boswell through twelves years of his life.