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Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century [EPUB ebook]

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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.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781847089014 ● Publisher Granta Publications ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4101624 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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