{"product_id":"john-aubrey-my-own-life","title":"John Aubrey: My Own Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Scurr, Ruth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e VINTAGE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 07-04-2016\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 8\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\n'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote.You may not know his name. Aubrey was a modest man, a gentleman-scholar who cared far more for the preservation of history than for his own legacy. But he was a passionate collector, an early archaeologist and the inventor of modern biography.With all the wit, charm and originality that characterises her subject, Ruth Scurr has seamlessly stitched together John Aubrey's own words to tell his life story and a captivating history of seventeenth-century England unlike any other.'A game-changer in the world of biography' Mary Beard'Ingenious' Hilary Mantel'Irresistible' Philip Pullman\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\nMy Own Life is\u003cbr\u003e\nlight, ingenious, inspiring, a book to reread and cherish. The vigour and spirit on every page would delight John Aubrey, that most individual of thinkers and writers, who has found a biographer of originality and wit. It is reverent, charming, poignant: it is made of the same ingredients as its subject. -- Hilary Mantel\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nExtraordinary -- Mary Beard ―\u003cbr\u003e\nSpectator\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAn\u003cbr\u003e\naudacious and successful attempt to write a biography in the subject’s own words. Scurr has ingeniously edited Aubrey’s swift, vivid prose into a coherent account of the life lived by one of the most interesting (and interested – in everything) writers of our most exciting century, the seventeenth.\u003cbr\u003e\nIrresistible ―\u003cbr\u003e\nGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nTo me this book is\u003cbr\u003e\na delight and…it is the one that I would take with me to a desert island ―\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Times\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWriting a biography of a biographer that doubles as an experimental analysis of biography itself is\u003cbr\u003e\na formidable and astonishing achievement. That it is also profoundly affecting is what makes\u003cbr\u003e\nJohn Aubrey: My Own Life a triumph -- Stuart Kelly ―\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn an act of daring ventriloquism, Scurr here tells Aubrey’s life story in his own words, stitched together from his scattered manuscripts. The result is\u003cbr\u003e\na triumph of historical imagination, as vivid and endearing as its subject’s own -- Kathryn Hughes ―\u003cbr\u003e\nGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nScurr confidently walks an imaginative life between historical fact and fiction. Her Aubrey – curious yet self-effacing- is\u003cbr\u003e\na very English hero ―\u003cbr\u003e\nSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nScurr’s judgment and scholarship in constructing Aubrey’s own account of events are so\u003cbr\u003e\nflawless that she allows us almost to forget that she is there ―\u003cbr\u003e\nGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAn extraordinarily original piece of biography…\u003cbr\u003e\ngripping, moving, and beautifully rendered -- Neel Mukherjee ―\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAnother writer of brief lives, Lytton Strachey, feared that in our modern civilization John Aubrey would 'never come into existence again'. But that is exactly what he does in Ruth Scurr's absorbing and imaginative biography. In these pages his purchase on posterity returns with all his ingenious visions and impulses.\u003cbr\u003e\nScurr is no less a pioneer biographer than Aubrey himself. -- Michael Holroyd\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIt is a\u003cbr\u003e\nbold and brilliant experiment, but it suits the fragmentary nature of Aubrey's work and life. -- Andrew Brown ―\u003cbr\u003e\nSunday Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn a year that has seen the publication of Ruth Scurr's John Aubrey: My Own Life, it's hard not to wonder...why everyone else bothers. Oh, you think, it's because they started writing their books when the earth was still flat... Scurr's book alters our perception of the territory.\u003cbr\u003e\nYou would be sceptical if you weren't awestruck: Aubrey's voice is exceptional, and Scurr's fragmentary form is perfectly suited to her subject's magpie preoccupations. -- Gaby Wood ―\u003cbr\u003e\nDaily Telegraph, Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n[A]\u003cbr\u003e\nmoving and delicate book -- Frances Wilson ―\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThis year saw one of the most audacious biographies I can remember reading: Ruth Scurr's John Aubrey: My Own Life... 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