“Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read.”—Hilary Mantel, London Review of
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
John Aubrey: My Own Life is an extraordinary book about the first modern biographer that reimagines what biography can be. This intimate diary of Aubrey’s days is composed of his own words, collected,
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