Brief Lives Volume II: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Brief Lives Volume II by John Aubrey: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 11 original MP3 tracks, 8:18:38 running time and a link to listen.
Brief Lives Volume II, 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 II by John Aubrey. Read in English by Nicole Lee Volume 2 of Aubrey's sparkling gossipy biographical pieces on his 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 II
- Author credits: John Aubrey
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 11
- Listed recording duration: 8:18:38
Catalogue topics
- English literature
- gossip
- restoration
- seventeenth century
- literary memoirs
Track guide
- 01 - Ingelbert to Lilly — 53:17
- 02 - Linus to Monk — 58:53
- 03 - More to Oughtred — 54:28
- 04 - Outtram to Petty — 52:51
- 05 - Phillips to Radford — 40:30
- 06 - Raleigh to Sanderson — 48:58
- 07 - Sandys to Suckling — 48:52
- 08 - Sutton to Waller — 53:20
- 09 - Wallis to York — 53:18
- 10 - Appendix I — 25:44
- 11 - Appendix II — 8:27
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