
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...

The Life of Mr Richard Savagewas 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...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization...





The Life of Mr. Richard Savage - Son of the Earl Rivers - To which are added, the lives of Sir Francis Drake, and Admiral Blake. All written by the same author is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1767. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different...