The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Published: 1777
Total Pages: 316
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Author: Samuel Johnson
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Published: 1777
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tim Hodkinson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-07-25
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 1447818466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical Fiction (medieval). New Edited Edition. It is 1315 AD. Rotting in prison, condemned as a heretic, Knight Templar Richard Savage is given a chance of reprieve if he returns to his homeland of Ireland. There is a catch: He must work as a spy for King Edward of England. Scotland and England are at war. The Scots intend to invade Ireland and someone in Ireland is helping them. Savage returns to a land where he cannot be sure who to trust. Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, is said to possess a mysterious treasure, and many are flocking to his cause. Efficient, brutal killers are on the loose and in the middle of it all is Alys de Logan, Savage's former love who he abandoned to join the Templars, who some say has become a witch. Amid feasts, tournaments and war, Savage discovers he left more than just memories behind in Ireland. Can he decide whose side he in on, where Bruce's secret treasure is and above all, stay alive?
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Published: 1961
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 50
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2016-05-30
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 177048602X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Published: 1767
Total Pages: 366
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 53
ISBN-13: 000711169X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLives that Never Grow Old Part of a radical new series -edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Johnson's book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive. When he first came to London, young Samuel Johnson was befriended by the flamboyant poet, playwright and blackmailer, Richard Savage. Walking the backstreets at night, he learned Savage's extraordinary story - supposedly persecuted by a 'cruel mother', sentenced to death for a murder in a brothel, appointed Volunteer Poet Laureate to the Queen, and finally broken and outcast. With this moving and intimate account, Johnson created a brilliant black comedy of 18th-century Grub Street which revolutionised English biography by its psychological realism. Yet Savage's destructive charm and delusions of grandeur sometimes even threatened to entangle Johnson himself.
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Published: 1992-11-01
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Rothel
Publisher: Empire Publishing
Published: 2000
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ISBN-13: 9780944019290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Holmes
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2018-02-20
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ISBN-13: 0307742342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard Holmes’s luminous meditation on the art of biography explores the fascinating relationship between fact and fiction through his own personal experience as a biographer. Ranging widely over art, science, and poetry, Holmes describes a pilgrimage of the heart that has taken him across three centuries. He powerfully evokes the lives of women both scientific and literary: Margaret Cavendish, Mary Somerville, Germaine de Staël, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the Dutch intellectual Zélide. Holmes investigates the reductive myths that have overshadowed some favorite Romantic figures: the love-stunned John Keats, the waterlogged Percy Bysshe Shelley, the opium-soaked Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the mad visionary William Blake. This great chronicler of the Romantics has produced a chronicle of himself and his intellectual passions; it contains his most personal and most seductive writing.