Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage

Name: Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage
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ISBN: 9780679757702

ISBN-10: 0679757708

ISBN-13: 9780679757702

Edition: N/A

Authors: Richard Holmes, Richard Holmes

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Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage recounts a story of a mysterious eighteenth-century friendship between Richard Savage - poet, playwright, and convicted murderer - and the young Samuel Johnson, an unknown provincial schoolmaster just arrived in London to seek his literary fortune. In a book that the Times Literary Supplement has called a chiaroscuro masterpiece, as gothic as a ghost story, as heroic as a myth, Richard Holmes brilliantly reconstructs the puzzling emotional intimacy between the naive Johnson and the seductive, contradictory Savage whose days (when he was not in prison) were spent in taverns, brothels, and society salons. Holmes's spellbinding account shows how their relationship…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/30/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Richard Holmes was born in London in 1945 and educated at Downside School and Churchill College, Cambridge.In 1974 he published Shelley: The Pursuit which won the Somerset Maugham Award and was described by Stephen Spender as "surely the best biography of Shelley ever written". He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 1992 was awarded an OBE.He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.