Aubrey's Brief Lives
Author: Aubrey, John
ISBN: 9781784870331
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 07 Apr 2016
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback / softback
The ground-breaking book that invented modern biography - elegant, vivid and deeply entertaining
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RUTH SCURR
John Aubrey was a modest man, a self-styled antiquarian and the man who invented modern biography. His 'lives' of the prominent figures of his generation and the Elizabethan era, including Shakespeare, Milton and Sir Walter Raleigh, have been plundered by historians for centuries for their frankness and fascinating detail. Collected here are all of Aubrey's biographical writings, a series of unforgettable portraits of the characters of his day, still more alive and kicking than in any conventional work of history.
ISBN: 9781784870331
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 07 Apr 2016
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback / softback
The ground-breaking book that invented modern biography - elegant, vivid and deeply entertaining
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RUTH SCURR
John Aubrey was a modest man, a self-styled antiquarian and the man who invented modern biography. His 'lives' of the prominent figures of his generation and the Elizabethan era, including Shakespeare, Milton and Sir Walter Raleigh, have been plundered by historians for centuries for their frankness and fascinating detail. Collected here are all of Aubrey's biographical writings, a series of unforgettable portraits of the characters of his day, still more alive and kicking than in any conventional work of history.
