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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.

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Johnson on Savage by Richard Holmes

Lives that Never Grow Old Part of a radical new series edited by Richard Holmes that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Johnsons book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive.

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Richard Holmes is our greatest living biographer. His biography of Shelley won the Somerset Maugham Prize. ‘Footsteps’ (1985) revolutionised the way biography was thought about and written. The first part of his biography of Coleridge won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. ‘Dr Johnson and Mr Savage’ won the James Tait Black Prize. The concluding volume of his Coleridge biography won the Duff Cooper Prize and the William Heinemann award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy.

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ISBN 13 9780007111695
ISBN 10 000711169X
Title Johnson on Savage
Author Richard Holmes
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 2005-10-17
Number of pages 132
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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