Aubrey's Brief Lives by John Aubrey PAPERBACK 9781784870331

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Aubrey's Brief Lives\nby John Aubrey\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: John Aubrey\nTitle: Aubrey's Brief Lives\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Biography: historical, political and military\nPublisher: Vintage Publishing\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9781784870331\nISBN-10: 1784870331\nRRP: \u00A312.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RUTH SCURR\n\nJohn Aubrey was a modest man, a self-styled antiquarian and the man who invented modern biography. His \u2018lives\u2019 of the prominent figures of his generation and the Elizabethan era, including Shakespeare, Milton and Sir Walter Raleigh, have been plundered by historians for centuries for their frank.