Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1847089011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A profound and delightful jeu d'esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of Pseudodoxia Epidemica and into the 21st century, to apply his generous curiosity and rational intelligence to the vagaries and contradictions of life today. Browne has had some impressive fans (Sebald, Woolf, Borges, Poe, Marias) but this book will revive him, bringing his extraordinary genius to a whole new audience.
The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century
Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1847089011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A profound and delightful jeu d'esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of Pseudodoxia Epidemica and into the 21st century, to apply his generous curiosity and rational intelligence to the vagaries and contradictions of life today. Browne has had some impressive fans (Sebald, Woolf, Borges, Poe, Marias) but this book will revive him, bringing his extraordinary genius to a whole new audience.
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1847089011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A profound and delightful jeu d'esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of Pseudodoxia Epidemica and into the 21st century, to apply his generous curiosity and rational intelligence to the vagaries and contradictions of life today. Browne has had some impressive fans (Sebald, Woolf, Borges, Poe, Marias) but this book will revive him, bringing his extraordinary genius to a whole new audience.
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393006193
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Sir Thomas Browne was one of the greatest English prose stylists--a physician by vocation, a theologian by inclination, and a writer of great elegance and erudition.This edition of his works, with Introduction, Notes, Comments, and Bibliography, includes all Browne's major pieces and selections from his minor papers and letters. The Notes are designed to help the student understand Browne's references, and the Introduction provides an account of his life and an analysis of his baroque style against the background of seventeenth-century literature.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393006193
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Sir Thomas Browne was one of the greatest English prose stylists--a physician by vocation, a theologian by inclination, and a writer of great elegance and erudition.This edition of his works, with Introduction, Notes, Comments, and Bibliography, includes all Browne's major pieces and selections from his minor papers and letters. The Notes are designed to help the student understand Browne's references, and the Introduction provides an account of his life and an analysis of his baroque style against the background of seventeenth-century literature.
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne
The Garden of Cyrus..
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 2
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 1
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas Browne. Supplementary memoir by the editor. Mrs. Lyttleton's communication to Bishop Kennet. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books I-IV
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description