Offers profiles of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century celebrities, including Francis Bacon, Samuel Butler, Edmund Halley, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, and Sir Walter Raleigh

Aubrey's Brief Lives (The Penguin English Library)

Biographies & Memoirs

AUBREY, JOHN

Historical

Penguin Classics

With deft, picturesque prose, Aubrey presents biographical sketches for an intriguing and colorful parade of statesmen, poets, philosophers, and scientists, including Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, and Rene Descartes, as well as a host of lesser known but equally fascinating figures. This anecdotal, gossipy collection brings to life the tumultuous world of Elizabethan and Stuart England and its revolutions in politics, science and morality. At the same time, Aubrey revels in the sheer variety of human nature and in the detailed, intimate, and sometimes scandalous aspects of his subjects' lives. An antiquarian, Aubrey began his collection as source material for his friend Anthony Wood's histories of Oxford University. In this new edition, more faithful to the original text than previous versions, Brief Lives emerges as a revolution in the art of English biography, a mixture of entertainment and erudition, and a lively portrait of an age.

Brief Lives (Penguin Classics)

Monumenta Britannica

Little,Brown & Co

Monumenta Britannica or a miscellany of British antiquities (Parts One and Two)Text clean; binding tight;

Little,Brown & Company

"brief Lives": Chiefly of Contemporaries, Set Down by John Aubrey, Between the Years 1669 & 1696

Franklin Classics

Brief Lives: Modern English Version

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Brief Lives' V2 I-Y: Chiefly of Contemporaries, Set Down by John Aubrey, Between the Years 1669 and 1696

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Brief Lives' V2 I-Y: Chiefly Of Contemporaries, Set Down By John Aubrey, Between The Years 1669 And 1696

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Kessinger Publishing

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Brief Lives' V1 A-H: Chiefly Of Contemporaries Set Down By John Aubrey, Between The Years 1669-1696 (1898)

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