Brief Lives Volume I: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Brief Lives Volume I by John Aubrey: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 14 original MP3 tracks, 10:58:02 running time and a link to listen.
Brief Lives Volume I, credited to John Aubrey, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Brief Lives Volume I by John Aubrey. Read in English by Nicole Lee A collection of sparkling gossipy biographical pieces of Aubrey's contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glimpses into the unofficial side of these towering figures has won it an undying popularity, with Ruth Scurr's recent reimagined "autobiography" of Aubrey, breathing new life into this classic for the next generation of readers. - Summary by Nicole Lee
Recording facts
- Recording title: Brief Lives Volume I
- Author credits: John Aubrey
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 14
- Listed recording duration: 10:58:02
Catalogue topics
- civil war
- gossip
- jacobean
- seventeenth century
Track guide
- 01 - Preface and Introduction — 33:09
- 02 - Abbott to Aubrey — 36:49
- 03 - Aubrey to Bacon — 49:22
- 04 - Bacon to Blake — 37:24
- 05 - Blount to Butler — 48:24
- 06 - Butler to Charnock — 51:43
- 07 - Chaucer to Danvers — 41:07
- 08 - Danvers to Digby — 48:26
- 09 - Digby to Feriby — 45:04
- 10 - Fisk to Hariot — 52:40
- 11 - Harley to Hill — 53:28
- 12 - Hobbes Part I — 58:48
- 13 - Hobbes Part II — 1:03:22
- 14 - Holder to Hyde — 38:16
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