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Title: Brief Lives: ; Together With, an Apparatus for the Lives of Our English Mathematical Writers ; And, the Life of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury (Penguin Classics) by John Buchanan-Brown, John Life of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury Aubrey, John Apparatus for the Lives of Our English Mathematical Writ Aubrey, Michael Hunter ISBN: 0-14-043589-1 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Rambling 17th century gossip
Comment: It's fun reading this collection of digressive informal anecdotes about famous (and some obscure) Englishmen. If you enjoyed "An Instance of the Fingerpost" (where some of thc characters appear) you'd like this. As a primary source for information it gets less reliable the further back it goes. Aubrey was born in 1626 so his accounts of Shakespeare and Elizathans are a generation removed, but he had met Harvey and Penn and had been through the Civil War and the rule of Cromwell.
Rating: 5
Summary: A unique gleaning of 17th century English history and gossip
Comment: Because its author never completed most of the entries for this biographical work, and never published it, what he did set down about his varied noble and ignoble subjects is uncensored, gossipy, perhaps unsubstantiated, and delightful. If you like browsing in Pepys' diary, or are fascinated by English life in the 17th century, this is the book to leave about for the occasional free moment.
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Title: New Grub Street (Penguin Classics) by George Gissing, Bernard Bergonzi ISBN: 0140430326 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1976 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Rembrandt's Jews by Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn, Steven M. Nadler ISBN: 0226567362 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: W. B. Yeats, a Life: II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939 (WB YEATS A LIFE) by R. F. Foster ISBN: 0198184654 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Samuel Pepys : The Unequalled Self by CLAIRE TOMALIN ISBN: 0375725539 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Complete Peanuts: 1950-1952 by Charles M. Schulz, Garrison Keillor, Seth ISBN: 156097589X Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: 03 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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