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20%OFFSamuel Johnson - The Life of Mr Richard Savage - 9781554811557 - V9781554811557
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The Life of Mr Richard Savage

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Description for The Life of Mr Richard Savage Paperback. The only student edition of Samuel Johnson's great eighteenth-century literary biography.

Editor(s): Seager, Nicholas; Wilcox, Lance. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 301 x 15. Weight in Grams: 304.
The Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by an unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson, who would later become the most celebrated British writer of the late 1700s. Richard Savage (1697-1743) was a poet, playwright, and satirist who claimed to be the illegitimate son of a late earl and to have been denied his inheritance and viciously persecuted by his mother. He was urbane, charming, a brilliant conversationalist, but also irresponsible and impulsive. His role in a tavern brawl almost led him to the gallows, though his life was saved by an eleventh-hour pardon by the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Peterborough, Canada
ISBN
9781554811557
SKU
V9781554811557
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About Samuel Johnson
Nicholas Seager is Senior Lecturer in English at Keele University, UK. Lance Wilcox is Professor of English at Elmhurst College, USA.

Reviews for The Life of Mr Richard Savage
Samuel Johnson's Life of Mr Richard Savage is one of the greatest narratives in any genre of the British eighteenth century. Johnson's biography of his friend, a minor poet and hack writer who represented himself as the illegitimate son of a nobleman and died in a Bristol jail, is at once sympathetic and satiric. Broadview's edition, freshly edited and annotated ... Read more

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