{"product_id":"johnson-on-sevage","title":"Johnson On Sevage","description":"\u003cp\u003eLives that Never Grow Old\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45173413511347,"sku":"9780007111695","price":600.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/611ngkXzw9L.jpg?v=1765445471","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/johnson-on-sevage","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}