The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century
Download or Read eBook The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century PDF written by Hugh Aldersey-Williams and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Hugh Aldersey-Williams |
| Publisher | : Granta Books |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2015-05-07 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781847089014 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1847089011 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century by : Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Book excerpt: 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.
