Aubrey Brief Lives Omnibus Edition eBook John Aubrey Simon Webb William Duggan
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This book combines the complete contents of all three of the Langley Press 'Brief Lives' books into one volume. It includes all the Lives published as 'Aubrey’s Brief Lives A Selection', 'Aubrey’s Brief Lives The Elizabethans' and 'Aubrey’s Brief Lives Thomas Hobbes'. The introductions of all three books are published here in full, as are the explanatory introductions to each Life. This volume also includes William Duggan's translation of Thomas Hobbes' Latin prose autobiography, which Aubrey included among his 'Brief Lives'.
Aubrey Brief Lives Omnibus Edition eBook John Aubrey Simon Webb William Duggan
When you finish Pepys' Diary, Aubrey's "lives" helps fill the void for people like me ("lost in the '60s"). John Aubrey has been described as an incurable gossip, scatterbrain and general flake, but there was method to his madness. He was in love with history and the events, accomplishments and writings of people who lived before him. Since he saw this being lost, he set out to record everything he knew about important people from reading and talking with knowledgeable people of his time. He made no attempt to organize his writings, leaving that to someone later enthusiast. I love his language ("... she invited him into her bed, set him to work and married him the next day") and the attitudes of his time. Perfect book to dip into when you're in the mood!Product details
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Aubrey Brief Lives Omnibus Edition eBook John Aubrey Simon Webb William Duggan Reviews
"Brief Lives" has always been a delight, but it was Oliver Lawson Dick's scholarly editing that revealed Aubrey's genius. And Lawson Dick's Introduction, "The Life and Times of John Aubrey", is a miracle of synthesis and compression certainly one of the finest biographical essays ever written. This Nonpareil Books edition is sumptuous - a joy to read in these days of cheap, quickly produced paperbacks.
Lives of the rich and famous recorded a time when there were no libel laws meant that even the dirt that wasnt fit to print could be disseminated, whether true or not. It still makes fascinating reading.
I have no complaints about the service of the quick delivery. I haven't read it yet, but I'll get there eventually—it's one of twenty books waiting to be read.
I spent a short time working on the original theatre production which was brilliant. Guessing the book will be just as entertaining.
Aubrey is a fun read, and he doesn't tax the attention. Any number of authors mention Aubrey off-handedly as if you should have read him long ago, and maybe memorized sections. The short vignettes of famous, famous persons are illuminating and life-preserving. I recommend this book to anyone with a pretense to, well, pretense or anything else.
One of the world's most amusing books, and too little known except by 17th c. enthusiasts.
This book is a very interesting perspective on some major figures of Aubrey's time, and an insight into Aubrey himself. The editor's commentary is most helpful for understanding the author and his subjects.
This is a great book consisting of a hundred or so brief biographies of eminent persons principally of the Seventeenth Century. Each biography is no more than a page long. Most entries are humorous accounts of the personal details of the lives of these men, such as "Drunkenness he much exclaimed against, but wenching he allowed"; or "His tongue was a Charme, and drew in so many to be bound for him, and to be ingaged in his Designes, that he ruined a number." The English Civil Wars are covered in great detail. One learns in reading this book that many great men lost their lives at the young age of 22 or 23, such as Sir Charles Cavendish, in which Mr. Aubrey has this to say, "What wonders might have been expected from a Commander so Vigilant, so Loyall, so Constant, had he not dropt downe in his blooming age? This brave Hero might be opprest (as he was at last by numbers) but he could not be conquered." One also learns that it was the business of the crown to support and patronize literary men of promising talent, and Mr. Aubrey covers the lives of most of these men. However, sadly, one also learns that many books and treatises are mentioned that have since been lost to history, such as the voluminous work of Sir James Bovey. Thirty-two treatises are mentioned in his biography, and not one has survived to this day. The titles are all so very interesting, such as "The Art of Conversation," "The Art of Building a Man or Education," "The Art of Governing the Tongue," "The Causes of the Diseases of the Mind," etc. etc. I really do wish that these books were available today. One can only surmise at their contents from the biography of its author contained in this book. Finally, a word of caution This fascinating book will cause you to spend hours on Wikipedia reading up on the lives of the men mentioned in this book.
When you finish Pepys' Diary, Aubrey's "lives" helps fill the void for people like me ("lost in the '60s"). John Aubrey has been described as an incurable gossip, scatterbrain and general flake, but there was method to his madness. He was in love with history and the events, accomplishments and writings of people who lived before him. Since he saw this being lost, he set out to record everything he knew about important people from reading and talking with knowledgeable people of his time. He made no attempt to organize his writings, leaving that to someone later enthusiast. I love his language ("... she invited him into her bed, set him to work and married him the next day") and the attitudes of his time. Perfect book to dip into when you're in the mood!
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