05236cam a2200853 4500 545452094 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781681370439 1681370433 B019B6QB5G Amazon 820610ff-89db-4df0-be1b-2cfc713a85f1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 539807 539807 539807 2621111 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Scurr, Ruth. John Aubrey, My Own Life [Libby eBook]. New York Review Books, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 17MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 17MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. biographies of famous people. biographies and memoirs. historical biographies. autobiography books. Literary Criticism. English Civil War. European History. autobiographies. oliver cromwell. British History. Queen Elizabeth. french history. Literary gifts. World History. Autobiography. history books. memoir books. biographies. philosophy. charles ii. literature. Victorian. Biography. feminism. medieval. Writing. Memoirs. mystery. England. History. french. Essays. memoir. school. Death. diary. Music. love. arts. War. art. HTML:Born 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 England—writers, philosophers, mathematicians, doctors, astrologers, lawyers, statesmen—and wrote about them all, leaving behind a great gift to posterity: a compilation of biographical information titled <i>Brief Lives</i>, which in a strikingly modest and radical way invented the art of biography.<br /> <br /> 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 England’s 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.<br /> <br /> <i>John Aubrey, My Own Life</i> is an extraordinary book about the first modern biographer, which reimagines what biography can be. This intimate diary of Aubrey’s days is composed of his own words, collected, collated, and enlarged upon by Ruth Scurr in an act of meticulous scholarship and daring imagination. Scurr’s biography honors and echoes Aubrey’s own innovations in the art of biography. Rather than subject his life to a conventional narrative, Scurr has collected the evidence—the remnants of a life from manuscripts, letters, and books—and arranged it chronologically, modernizing words and spellings, and adding explanations when necessary, with sources provided in the extensive endnotes. Here are Aubrey’s intricate drawings of Stonehenge and the ancient Avebury stones; Aubrey on Charles I’s 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 sunset—clear at first—but by and by <i>crepusculum</i>—the twilight—comes—then total darkness”). From the darkness, Scurr has wrested a vibrant, intimate account of the life of an ingenious man. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=820610ff-89db-4df0-be1b-2cfc713a85f1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=820610ff-89db-4df0-be1b-2cfc713a85f1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=820610ff-89db-4df0-be1b-2cfc713a85f1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)