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John Aubrey: My Own Life
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‘A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive’ Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote.You may not know his name. Aubrey was a modest man, a gentleman-scholar who cared far more for the preservation of history than for his own legacy. But he was a passionate collector, an early archaeologist and the inventor of modern biography.With all the wit, charm and originality that characterises her subject, Ruth Scurr has seamlessly stitched together John Aubrey’s own words to tell his life story and a captivating history of seventeenth-century England unlike any other.’A game-changer in the world of biography’ Mary Beard’Ingenious’ Hilary Mantel’Irresistible’ Philip Pullman
Additional information
| Weight | 0.373 kg |
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| Dimensions | 3.2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 544 |
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| Year Published | 2016-4-7 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099490633 |
| About The Author | Ruth Scurr is an historian, biographer and literary critic. She teaches history and politics at Cambridge University, where she is a Lecturer and Fellow of Gonville & Caius College. Her first book, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution won the Franco-British Society Literary Prize, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and was listed among the 100 Best Books of the Decade in The Times. She reviews regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, The Telegraph and the Wall Street Journal. |
My Own Life is light, ingenious, inspiring, a book to reread and cherish. The vigour and spirit on every page would delight John Aubrey, that most individual of thinkers and writers, who has found a biographer of originality and wit. It is reverent, charming, poignant: it is made of the same ingredients as its subject. |
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| Other text | Extraordinary |
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