Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Kurv
The Life of Mr Richard Savage
Engelsk Paperback
The Life of Mr Richard Savage
Engelsk Paperback

315 kr
Tilføj til kurv
Sikker betaling
6 - 8 hverdage

Om denne bog

The Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by a then-unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson. 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 King. Over time he attracted many supporters, practically all of whom he managed to alienate by the time of his death in a debtors’ prison in Bristol. Johnson, who had been friends with Savage for a little over a year, drew on published documents and his own memories of Savage to produce one of the first great English biographies.

The edition is supplemented by other writings by Johnson, a selection of Savage’s prose and verse, contemporary and posthumous responses to Savage and to Johnson’s biography, and selections by Johnson’s first two major biographers, Sir John Hawkins and James Boswell.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9781554811557
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1554811554
Udg. Dato:
2 jun 2016
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
142mm
Højde:
218mm
Forlag:
Broadview Press Ltd
Oplagsdato:
2 jun 2016
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge