Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Browne’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major works
* All of the treatises, with individual contents tables
* Includes rare essays and letters
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Special criticism section, with six essays evaluating Browne’s contribution to literature
* Features three biographies, including Samuel Johnson’s seminal ‘Life’ – discover Browne’s literary life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order
CONTENTS:
The Books
Religio Medici (1643)
Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646)
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)
The Garden of Cyrus (1658)
Brampton Urnes (1712)
The Miscellany Tracts (1684)
A Letter to a Friend (1690)
Christian Morals (1716)
Common Place Books (1846)
Miscellaneous Works
The Criticism
Sir Thomas Browne by Leslie Stephen (1892)
Sir Thomas Browne and his ‘Religio Medici’: An Appreciation by Alexander Whyte (1898)
Sir Thomas Browne by Walter Pater (1899)
Sir Thomas Browne by Lytton Strachey (1906)
Sir Thomas Browne by Peter Eade (1908)
Sir Thomas Browne and Sir Kenelm Digby by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1919)
The Biographies
Life of Browne by Anthony Wood (1692)
Life of Browne by Samuel Johnson (1756)
Thomas Browne by Arthur Henry Bullen (1900)
