John Aubrey, My Own Life (Hardcover)

Ruth Scurr

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Editore: New York Review Books, New York, 2016

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Hardcover. A game-changer in the world of biography. Mary Beard, The GuardianShortlisted for the Costa Biography AwardBorn on the brink of the modern world, John Aubrey was witness to the great intellectual and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. He knew everyone of note in Englandwriters, philosophers, mathematicians, doctors, astrologers, lawyers, statesmenand wrote about them all, leaving behind a great gift to posterity: a compilation of biographical information titled Brief Lives, which in a strikingly modest and radical way invented the art of biography.Aubrey was born in Wiltshire, England, in 1626. The reign of Queen Elizabeth and, earlier, the dissolution of the monasteries were not too far distant in memory during his boyhood. He lived through Englands Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the brief rule of Oliver Cromwell and his son, and the restoration of Charles II. Experiencing these constitutional crises and regime changes, Aubrey was impassioned by the preservation of traces of Ancient Britain, of English monuments, manor houses, monasteries, abbeys, and churches. He was a natural philosopher, an antiquary, a book collector, and a chronicler of the world around him and of the lives of his friends, both men and women. His method of writing was characteristic of his manner: modest, self-deprecating, witty, and concerned above all with the collection of facts that would otherwise be lost to time.John Aubrey, My Own Life is an extraordinary book about the first modern biographer, which reimagines what biography can be. This intimate diary of Aubreys days is composed of his own words, collected, collated, and enlarged upon by Ruth Scurr in an act of meticulous scholarship and daring imagination. Scurrs biography honors and echoes Aubreys own innovations in the art of biography. Rather than subject his life to a conventional narrative, Scurr has collected the evidencethe remnants of a life from manuscripts, letters, and booksand arranged it chronologically, modernizing words and spellings, and adding explanations when necessary, with sources provided in the extensive endnotes. Here are Aubreys intricate drawings of Stonehenge and the ancient Avebury stones; Aubrey on Charles Is execution (On this day, the King was executed. It was bitter cold, so he wore two heavy shirts, lest he should shiver and seem afraid); and Aubrey on antiquity (Matters of antiquity are like the light after sunsetclear at firstbut by and by crepusculumthe twilightcomesthen total darkness). From the darkness, Scurr has wrested a vibrant, intimate account of the life of an ingenious man. John Aubry did not leave a diary. This biography is written in the form that diary might have taken. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
John Aubrey, My Own Life (Hardcover)
Autore
Ruth Scurr
Editore
New York Review Books, New York
Anno di pubblicazione
2016
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1681370425
ISBN 13
9781681370422

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