{"product_id":"aubreys-brief-lives-nonpareil-books-9781567920635","title":"Aubrey's Brief Lives (Nonpareil Books)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Aubrey (1626-1697) was the Bystander of his age  a hanger-on and hanger-out at great houses  a country gentleman of lively intellectual curiosity and unsteady character who left not a book to history but a random  sprawling collection of notes  anecdotes  scribbles and morsels of gossip that have been looted and quoted by scholars ever since. So  alongside prostitutes  soldiers  impostors and scholars stand  fully in the round of their humanity  such historical figures as Sir Walter Raleigh  Shakespeare  Wolsey  Sidney  Sir Thomas Moore and Milton. These men and women flawed  vain  ambitious  vulnerable are more alive here than in any formal history; these giants of an age are brought to a human scale  making it possible for the modern reader to feel  in the words of Edmund Wilson who contributes a foreword  what it must have been like to live then  to find oneself a part of an England that was venturesome  unsettled and eager  that was opening new horizons.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45951535775797,"sku":"ByrdShop_1567920632","price":98.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781567920635.jpg?v=1788112440","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/aubreys-brief-lives-nonpareil-books-9781567920635","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}