John Aubrey - Aubrey, John : Brief Lives [COMPACT DISCS] USA import

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John Aubrey - Aubrey, John : Brief Lives [COMPACT DISCS]

Artist: John Aubrey

Title: Aubrey, John : Brief Lives

Condition: New

Format: COMPACT DISCS

Release Date: 2006

Label: Naxos Audio Books

UPC: 9789626343784

Genre: Books on Tape/Cd

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. Desiderius Erasmus 1466?1536
2. John Colet 1467-1519
3. Sir Thomas More 1478?1535
4. Thomas Cooper 1517?1594
5. Sir William Fleetwood 1535?1594
6. William Butler 1535?1618
7. Thomas Allen 1542?1632
8. Sir Walter Raleigh 1552?1618
9. Sir Edward Coke 1552?1634
10. Lancelot Andrews 1555?1626
11. Thomas Hariot 1560?1621
12. Francis Bacon 1561?1626
13. William Shakespeare 1564?1616
14. Ben Jonson 1573?1637
15. Sir Everard Digby 1578?1606
16. William Harvey 1578?1657
17. Edmund Gunter 1581?1626
18. Richard Corbet 1582?1635

DISC 2:
1. David Jenkins 1586?1663
2. Thomas Hobbes 1588?1679
3. Rene Descartes 1569?1650
4. Thomas Chaloner 1595?1661
5. Venetia Digby 1600?1633
6. Henry Marten 1602?1680
7. William Chillingworth 1602?1624
8. Sir Henry Blount 1602?1682
9. Sir William Davenant 1606?1668
10. James Harrington 1611?1677
11. Samuel Butler 1612?1680
12. Sir Jonas Moore 1617?1679
13. Thomas Harcourt 1618?1679
14. Abraham Cowley 1618?1667
15. Edmund Halley 1656?1742

William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Hobbes three of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived. They, and many others, are here remembered by another great Englishman, John Aubrey, whose Brief Lives are some of the wittiest and most moving miniature portraits ever written. Aubrey a scholar, antiquarian and close observer of both the foibles and the courage of his contemporaries lived through the upheavals of the English Civil War in the seventeenth century. His little biographies are amusing, ribald, moving; a testament to the brevity of human existence and one.