John Aubrey My Own Life Author:Ruth Scurr Here is a biography that is also an act of imagination: a diary that seamlessly stitches together John Aubrey’s own words to tell the story of his life. Aubrey’s life’s work was to commit to posterity the England he loved. His Brief Lives would redefine the art of biography and capture the personalities and spirit of t... more »he seventieth century like no other work.
In his own voice, filled with wit, poignancy, drama and irreverence, this genre-defying account resurrects John Aubrey as a potent spirit for our own time.« less