Audiobooks Biography & Autobiography Brief Lives Volume I Preface and Introduction

Brief Lives Volume I

by John AUBREY (1626 - 1697)

Preface and Introduction

Brief Lives Volume I

A collection of sparkling gossipy biographical pieces of Aubrey's contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glimpses into the unofficial side of these towering figures has won it an undying popularity, with Ruth Scurr's recent reimagined "autobiography" of Aubrey, breathing new life into this classic for the next generation of readers. - Summary by Nicole Lee

Listen next episodes of Brief Lives Volume I:
Abbott to Aubrey , Aubrey to Bacon , Bacon to Blake , Blount to Butler , Butler to Charnock , Chaucer to Danvers , Danvers to Digby , Digby to Feriby , Fisk to Hariot , Harley to Hill , Hobbes Part I , Hobbes Part II , Holder to Hyde