Brief Lives (Abridged)

by John Aubrey Narrated by Brian Cox

Overview

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.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169199123
Publisher:	Naxos Audiobooks
Publication date:	04/01/2006
Edition description:	Abridged

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