ISBN: 9781554811557 - the life of mr richard savage (broadview editions) (5 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. 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. . 2016. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThe 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. This edition is supplemented by other.