Skip to content

Booksellers & Trade Customers: Sign up for online bulk buying at trade.atlanticbooks.com for wholesale discounts

Booksellers: Create Account on our B2B Portal for wholesale discounts

Johnson on Savage: The Life of Mr Richard Savage by Samuel Johnson

by Richard Holmes , Samuel Johnson
Save 26% Save 26%
Current price ₹1,160.00
Original price ₹1,559.00
Original price ₹1,559.00
Original price ₹1,559.00
(-26%)
₹1,160.00
Current price ₹1,160.00

Imported Edition - Ships in 18-21 Days

Free Shipping in India on orders above Rs. 500

Request Bulk Quantity Quote
+91
Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780007111695
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Publisher Imprint: Harper Perennial
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 176
  • Original Price: GBP 11.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 165 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Literary Figures

Lives 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.

Trusted for over 49 years

Family Owned Company

Secure Payment

All Major Credit Cards/Debit Cards/UPI & More Accepted

New & Authentic Products

India's Largest Distributor

Need Support?

Whatsapp Us