The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century
The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century

Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Publisher: Granta Books

Published: 2015-05-07

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1847089011

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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.

Sir Thomas Browne
Sir Thomas Browne

Author: Reid Barbour

Publisher:

Published: 2013-08

Total Pages: 549

ISBN-13: 0199679886

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Reid Barbour brings the historical evidence of Browne's life together for the first time, allowing readers to contextualise his most celebrated works.

The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne
The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne

Author: Sir Thomas Browne

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 1972-01

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13: 9780393006193

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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.