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What was James Boswell’s first major successful book?

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James Boswell’s first major successful book was An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to That Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, published in February 1768.1

This work brought Boswell immediate fame, as the public was eager for information regarding Corsica and the island's leader, Pascal Paoli, during a time of political tension involving France. While Boswell is most renowned today for his later masterpiece, the Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. (1791), An Account of Corsica was the significant literary achievement that first established his reputation.12