Brief Lives by Richard Barber, John Aubrey

336 pages first pub 1949 (editions)

nonfiction biography classics history informative slow-paced
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John Aubrey's racy portraits of the great figures of 17th-centuryEngland stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of theperiod. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire; at theage of 26 he inherited a family estate encumber...

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