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Brief Lives
By John Aubrey and Richard Barber (editor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Boydell Pr
Publication date October 1, 2004
Pages 332
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781843831129
ISBN-10 1843831120
Dimensions 1 by 5.50 by 8.25 in.
Published in Great Britain
Original list price $24.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: John Aubrey's racy portraits of the great figures of 17th-centuryEngland stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of theperiod. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire; at theage of 26 he inherited a family estate encumbered with debt, andfinally went bankrupt in the 1670s. From then on he led a sociable,rootless existence at the houses of friends — from Oxford and theMiddle Temple —pursuing the antiquarian studies which had alwaysobsessed him. At his death in 1697 he left a mass of notes andmanuscripts, among them the material for Brief Lives. He nevermanaged to put even a single life into logical order; all we have arethe raw materials, scribbled down —`tumultuously as they occurred to mythoughts'. With this full, modern English edition, whichreproduces Aubrey's words as closely as possible, Richard Barberintroduces us to Aubrey and his world, tells how the Lives cameinto being and enables many new readers to enjoy this eccentricmasterpiece.

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Paperback
Book cover for 9780851152066 Book cover for 9781519470836 Book cover for 9781519471000 Book cover for 9781843831129
 
from Createspace Independent Pub (November 22, 2015)
9781519470836 | details & prices | 366 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.83 in. | List price $22.90
About: "Brief Lives - Volume I" from John Aubrey.
from Createspace Independent Pub (November 22, 2015)
9781519471000 | details & prices | 274 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.62 in. | List price $19.90
The price comparison is for this edition
With Richard Barber (other contributor) | from Boydell Pr (October 1, 2004)
9781843831129 | details & prices | 332 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $24.95
About: John Aubrey's racy portraits of the great figures of 17th-centuryEngland stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of theperiod.
With Richard Barber (other contributor) | Reprint edition from Boydell & Brewer Inc (July 1, 1993)
9780851152066 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $34.95
CD/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9789626343784
 
With Brian Cox (other contributor) | Abridged edition from Naxos Audio Books (May 1, 2006)
9789626343784 | details & prices | 5.75 × 5.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.25 lbs | List price $17.98
About: William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Hobbes - three of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived.
Abridged edition from Naxos Audio Books (September 1, 1995)
9789626340431 | details & prices | 5.75 × 5.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.25 lbs | List price $15.98
Cassette/Spoken Word
Abridged edition from Naxos Audio Books (September 1, 1995)
9789626345436 | details & prices | List price $13.98
About: Probably English literature's greatest collector of gossip, anecdotes and personal trivia, Aubrey's compilation of the doings and sayings of the major and minor figures of the 16th and 17th centuries has survived in popular esteem.

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