John Aubrey

Aubrey's Brief Lives

Omnibus Edition
Herausgeber: Webb, Simon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 139mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 224g
• ISBN-13: 9780993598227
• ISBN-10: 0993598226
• Artikelnr.: 57986123

Autorenporträt

Born 12th March 1626 in Wiltshire, antiquary and biographer John Aubrey was the eldest surviving son of an affluent family. Having experienced a lonely childhood he later immersed himself in society, associating with many of the most distinguished figures of his time. He documented their lives in unique accounts, contained in manuscripts which were deposited in the Ashmolean Museum by the antiquary Anthony Wood in 1693. He had a keen interest in archaeology and is credited with a number of significant discoveries in Britain, including the ruins of Avebury, and the ring of chalk pits at Stonehenge which bear his name. He died 7th June 1697 and is buried in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalen in Oxford.