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A description of the friendship between the young Samuel Johnson and the poet, playwright and convicted murderer, Richard Savage. The book portrays the city of London as it was in the 18th-century. The author has also written "Shelley: The Pursuit" for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award.
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Physical description; xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Subjects; Johnson, Samuel 1709-1784 - Friends and associates. Savage, Richard d. 1743 - Friends and associates.
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‘As tense as a detective story and as rich as a Hogarth print, this is the work of a master-biographer.’ John Carey, Sunday Times
‘Richard Holmes’s Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is enthralling, well-written and convincing, a model of tactful psychological biography. One reads it with the pleasure one derives from great imaginative literature.’ Theodore Dalrymple, Spectator
‘Samuel Johnson’s Life of Mr Richard Savage is now perfectly complemented by Holmes’s volume which acts as a Baedeker through the reeking purlieus of an 18th-century Grub Street, while at the same time bringing fully to life two of the most complex and fascinating characters of English letters.’ Peter Ackroyd
‘Holmes, one of the most subtle and imaginative of contemporary biographers, is a virtuoso sleuth, an inspired rooter out of the human being netted in the web of words spun by a poem or a memoir. He combines scholarship with a rare gift of empathy, a deep personal involvement with his subject...His writing seems to glow from the fusion of an acute critical intelligence with a deep poetic and imaginative insight.’ Patrick Taylor Martin, Literary Review
‘A chiaroscuro masterpiece.’ David Nokes, TLS
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- PublisherHodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0340529741
- ISBN 13 9780340529744
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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