Shakespeare, sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Hobbes and others – the greatest Englishmen who ever lived. John Aubrey gave the wittiest, amusing and moving miniature portraits ever written. Aubrey's Brief Lives has been loved for generations for its colorful gossipy tone and for the glimpses it provides of the unofficial sides of its subjects. Aubrey's use of informants and his eye for the unusual provides much more vivid pictures than a biography based on documents could. He is frank but never malicious.
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