John Aubrey: My Own Life

Scurr, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0701179074 / ISBN 13: 9780701179076

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, UK, 2015

About this Item

Biography of Aubrey who although a prolific writer, collector and recorder only actually published one book in his lifetime. He wrote about his love of all things England and his desire not to allow his England to float away. Includes several b/w illustrations. xxiv+518pp.

Seller Inventory # 5111

Bibliographic Details

• Title: John Aubrey: My Own Life
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London, UK
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701179074
• ISBN 13: 9780701179076
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1050 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biographies, Memoires and Autobiographies

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Synopsis

Hardcover with jacket. Very good condition. CM

About the Author

Ruth Scurr is an historian, biographer and literary critic. She teaches history and politics at Cambridge University, where she is a Lecturer and Fellow of Gonville & Caius College. Her first book, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution won the Franco-British Society Literary Prize, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and was listed among the 100 Best Books of the Decade in The Times. She reviews regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, The Telegraph and the Wall Street Journal.