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Author |
: John Aubrey |
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Total Pages |
: 398 |
Release |
: 1898 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015065730882 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis 'Brief Lives': I-Y by : John Aubrey
Author |
: John Aubrey |
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Total Pages |
: 440 |
Release |
: 1898 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X000472032 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis 'Brief Lives,' Chiefly of Contemporaries: I-Y by : John Aubrey
Author |
: John Aubrey |
Publisher |
: Graphic Arts Books |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2021-12-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781513273761 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1513273760 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Brief Lives by : John Aubrey
Brief Lives (1669-1697) is a collection of short biographical sketches on famous British figures by author, antiquarian, and archaeologist John Aubrey. The work is significant for its unique style, a blend of facts—names, dates, family, important works—and personal anecdotes for which Aubrey combined his skills for research and conversation to compile. Unpublished during his lifetime, the text was pieced together from extensive handwritten manuscripts by numerous editors and scholars, and over the centuries has become a beloved cultural artifact of early-modern Britain. A fascinating figure and gifted researcher in his own right, John Aubrey sought to capture the significance of his era and the people whose contributions to art, politics, science, and philosophy were not only changing Britain, but the world, forever. As a historical record, his Brief Lives provides valuable information on such figures as poet John Milton, playwright William Shakespeare, philosopher Thomas Hobbes, and chemist Robert Boyle. But as a work of art, the text humanizes them, reminding its readers that these were people whose desires, imperfections, and day-to-day lives were not unlike our own. We turn to his works to discover that Sir Walter Raleigh was a “poor” scholar “immerst...in fabrication of his owne fortunes,” or to read that Shakespeare, the son of a butcher who worked for his father as a youth, was known to “make a speech” while slaughtering a calf. At times straightforwardly factual, at others filled with gossip, Brief Lives is a document of its time that attempts to record a living history of knowledge and influence. Whether it succeeds is beside the point—that it speaks to us centuries on is the heart of the matter, the reason it must be read. A well-known man in his lifetime, Aubrey moved between cultural and political circles with ease, compiling the sources that would later become Brief Lives. Although a tireless writer and scholar, he published little during his life. His work, including Brief Lives, is thus the product of centuries of diligent research and editing from numerous scholars who understood, as the reader of this volume surely will, that Aubrey’s work deserved to reach the public. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of John Aubrey’s Brief Lives is a classic of British literature and biography reimagined for modern readers.
Author |
: John Aubrey |
Publisher |
: David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages |
: 548 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1567920632 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781567920635 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aubrey's Brief Lives by : John Aubrey
Introd. by O.L. Dick entitled Life and times of John Aubry.
Author |
: John Aubrey |
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Total Pages |
: 454 |
Release |
: 1898 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X000472039 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis "Brief Lives," Chiefly of Contempories by : John Aubrey
Author |
: John Aubrey |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 456 |
Release |
: 1898 |
ISBN-10 |
: BML:37001103991613 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Brief Lives, Chiefly of Contempories,... 1669-1696 by : John Aubrey
Author |
: Junot Díaz |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2008-09-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781594483295 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1594483299 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by : Junot Díaz
Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.
Author |
: Neil Gaiman |
Publisher |
: Titan Books (UK) |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1852865776 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781852865771 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sandman by : Neil Gaiman
The story of the search for Sandman's missing brother, Destruction, and the consequences of that endeavour. Sandman and his sister Delirium have to travel through the waking world to find the missing member of the Endless family. Sandman also manages to resolve his relationship with his son.
Author |
: Jan Goldin Fabiyi |
Publisher |
: Kar-Ben Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 12 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822589464 |
ISBN-13 |
: 082258946X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Where Shabbat Lives by : Jan Goldin Fabiyi
Illustrations and simple text portray a family celebrating Shabbat, not only during the meal but in all they say and do throughout the week.
Author |
: Robert Kastenbaum |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 461 |
Release |
: 2004-05-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520922938 |
ISBN-13 |
: 052092293X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Our Way by : Robert Kastenbaum
How do our ideas about dying influence the way we live? Life has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country—and in our day we increasingly turn to myth and magic, ritual and virtual reality, cloning and cryostasis in the hope of eluding the reality of the inevitable end. In this book a preeminent and eminently wise writer on death and dying proposes a new way of understanding our last transition. A fresh exploration of the final passage through life and perhaps through death, his work deftly interweaves historical and contemporary experiences and reflections to demonstrate that we are always on our way. Drawing on a remarkable range of observations—from psychology, anthropology, religion, biology, and personal experience—Robert Kastenbaum re-envisions life's forward-looking progress, from early-childhood bedtime rituals to the many small rehearsals we stage for our final separation. Along the way he illuminates such moments and ideas as becoming a "corpsed person," going down to earth or up in flames, respecting or abusing (and eating) the dead, coping with "too many dead," conceiving and achieving a "good death," undertaking the journey of the dead, and learning to live through the scrimmage of daily life fully knowing that Eternity does not really come in a designer flask. Profound, insightful, often moving, this look at death as many cultures await it or approach it enriches our understanding of life as a never-ending passage.