Johnson and Savage: A Biographical Mystery

First edition. The story of a mysterious 18th century friendship that challenges our whole view of literary history. Using an imaginative series of narrative methods, the author reconstructs the strange alliance between Samuel Johnson, an unknown provincial schoolmaster just arrived in London, and Richard Savage, author of The Bastard 1728 , a poet, playwright, convicted murderer and contradictory personality who roamed through the backstreets of Augustan England. xii, 260 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..