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Brief Lives by John Aubrey

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Brief Lives

Author
John Aubrey
Narrator
Brian Cox
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Publish Date
1 April 2006
Run Time
2 hours 38 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Biography: general
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William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Hobbes – three of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived. They, and many others, are here remembered by another great Englishman, John Aubrey, whose Brief Lives are some of the wittiest and most moving miniature portraits ever written. Aubrey – a scholar, antiquarian and close observer of both the foibles and the courage of his contemporaries – lived through the upheavals of the English Civil War in the seventeenth century. His little biographies are amusing, ribald, moving; a testament to the brevity of human existence and one of the most precious relics of a distant age.

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Author
John Aubrey
Narrator
Brian Cox
Duration
2 hours 38 minutes
Release Date
1 April 2006
ISBN
9789626343784
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Genre
Biography: general

Synopsis

William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Hobbes – three of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived. They, and many others, are here remembered by another great Englishman, John Aubrey, whose Brief Lives are some of the wittiest and most moving miniature portraits ever written. Aubrey – a scholar, antiquarian and close observer of both the foibles and the courage of his contemporaries – lived through the upheavals of the English Civil War in the seventeenth century. His little biographies are amusing, ribald, moving; a testament to the brevity of human existence and one of the most precious relics of a distant age.

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