| Brief Lives: Chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey, between the Years 1669 & 1696 - Volume II (I to V) Contributor(s): Aubrey, John (Author), Clark, Andrew (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1646792777 ISBN-13: 9781646792771 Publisher: Cosimo Classics OUR PRICE: $21.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - History | Europe - Great Britain - Stuart Era (1603-1714) |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.07 lbs) 384 pages |
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| Publisher Description: "Writing is, among things, the place where we can help ourselves cope with the dark parts of our living." --John Aubrey Brief Lives--Chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey, between the Years 1669 & 1696 is a collection of short, colorful, gossipy biographies written by John Aubrey in the last part of the 17th century. It took two centuries, however, before Aubrey received real recognition as a great biographer. It was in 1898 that Reverend Andrew Clark (1856-1922), a minister and editor, edited the transcript of Brief Lives that established Aubrey's name as the man who invented biography. Clark's edition was published in two volumes: Volume I from letters A to H and Volume II from I to V, with biographies of distinguished 17th-century Englishmen such as Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Thomas Browne, Walter Harvey, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Hooke, Sir Walter Raleigh and William Shakespeare. |