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The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century

By Hugh Aldersey-Williams

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About the book

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 ...Show more

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9781847089007

Publisher

Granta Books

Published year

2015

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1

Original title

The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century

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Hardcover

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