Brief Lives Volume 1

Brief Lives Volume 1 by John Aubrey

I listened to the Librivox version of this. (Also available on Project Gutenberg) I could not understand it very well. I had trouble grasping why. I thought the narrator may be too fast, so I slowed down a lot. The language also did not seem to difficult once I was able to focus on it. The accent of the narrator was also not very bad. According to wikipedia, he had a collection of manuscripts that was later assembled by editors after he died. I used his death date as publication date. The content is an opinionated history of famous figures. Most lived around his time, though there were some going further back.