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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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A unique gleaning of 17th century English history and gossip,
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This review is from: Brief Lives (Modern History) (Paperback)
Because its author never completed most of the entries for this biographical work, and never published it, what he did set down about his varied noble and ignoble subjects is uncensored, gossipy, perhaps unsubstantiated, and delightful. If you like browsing in Pepys' diary, or are fascinated by English life in the 17th century, this is the book to leave about for the occasional free moment.
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Rambling 17th century gossip,
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This review is from: Brief Lives (Modern History) (Paperback)
It's fun reading this collection of digressive informal anecdotes about famous (and some obscure) Englishmen. If you enjoyed "An Instance of the Fingerpost" (where some of thc characters appear) you'd like this. As a primary source for information it gets less reliable the further back it goes. Aubrey was born in 1626 so his accounts of Shakespeare and Elizathans are a generation removed, but he had met Harvey and Penn and had been through the Civil War and the rule of Cromwell.
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Brief Lives (Classic Literature with Classical Music) by John Aubrey (Audio Cassette - July 1995)
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