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Delphi Collected Works of John Aubrey Illustrated (eBook)

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The antiquarian and biographer John Aubrey is best known for vivid, intimate and at times acerbic sketches of his famous seventeenth century contemporaries. His celebrated 'Brief Lives' are not biographies in the strict sense, being based on observation and gossip, offering engaging portraits that are graced by picturesque and revealing detail. Winning great acclaim with later generations, they include revealing stories of such figures as Francis Bacon, Thomas Browne, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Halley, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes and William Shakespeare. This eBook presents Aubrey's collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Aubrey's life and works * Concise introductions to the texts * All the major works, with individual contents tables * Andrew Clark's celebrated 1898 edition of the 'Brief Lives', with Clark's original hyperlinked footnotes * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Features a brief biography

CONTENTS:

The Works The Natural History of Wiltshire (1691) Miscellanies (1696) Brief Lives (1697)

The Biography John Aubrey (1900) by Richard Garnett

The antiquarian and biographer John Aubrey is best known for vivid, intimate and at times acerbic sketches of his famous seventeenth century contemporaries. His celebrated 'Brief Lives' are not biographies in the strict sense, being based on observation and gossip, offering engaging portraits that are graced by picturesque and revealing detail. Winning great acclaim with later generations, they include revealing stories of such figures as Francis Bacon, Thomas Browne, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Halley, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes and William Shakespeare. This eBook presents Aubrey's collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Aubrey's life and works * Concise introductions to the texts * All the major works, with individual contents tables * Andrew Clark's celebrated 1898 edition of the 'Brief Lives', with Clark's original hyperlinked footnotes * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Features a brief biography

CONTENTS:

The Works The Natural History of Wiltshire (1691) Miscellanies (1696) Brief Lives (1697)

The Biography John Aubrey (1900) by Richard Garnett

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VerlagDelphi Publishing Ltd
EinbandAdobe Digital Editions
Erscheinungsjahr2025
Seitenangabe2277 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
Masse18'459 KB
PlattformEPUB
ReiheDelphi Series Fifteen
AutorAubrey, John / Delphi Classics (Hrsg.)

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Über den Autor John Aubrey

John Aubrey, born in 1626 near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, was the eldest son of a gentry family. Educated at Malmesbury Grammar School, where he befriended Thomas Hobbes, he later attended Trinity College, Oxford, though his studies were disrupted by the English Civil War. An antiquary and original fellow of the Royal Society, Aubrey is noted for discovering the ruins of Avebury and his archaeological research. He mingled with prominent figures of his time and is best remembered for Brief Lives, a collection of biographical notes and anecdotes. He died in 1697 and was buried in Oxford.

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