Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Author: Kate Loveman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198732686
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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"This study uses [Pepys's] surviving papers to examine reading practices, collecting, and the exchange of information in the late 17th century"--Back cover.

Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520020986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the history of its period. In spite of its significance, all previous editions were inadequately edited and suffered from a number of omissions--until Robert Latham and William Matthews went back to the 300-year-old original manuscript and deciphered each passage and phrase, no matter how obscure or indiscreet. The Diary deals with some of the most dramatic events in English history. Pepys witnessed the London Fire, the Great Plague, the Restoration of Charles II, and the Dutch Wars. He was a patron of the arts, having himself composed many delightful songs and participated in the artistic life of London. His flair for gossip and detail reveals a portrait of the times that rivals the most swashbuckling and romantic historical novels. In none of the earlier versions was there a reliable, full text, with commentary and notation with any claim to completeness. This edition, first published in 1970, is the first in which the entire diary is printed with systematic comment. This is the only complete edition available; it is as close to Pepys’s original as possible.

Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781789430981
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Samuel Pepys gives a unique first hand account of life during the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London. Pepys stayed in London while many of the wealthy fled the city in the face of the plague. His careful observation and interest in the details of people's lives as well as the events of the time are unparalleled.

Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520226999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the history of its period. In spite of its significance, all previous editions were inadequately edited and suffered from a number of omissions—until Robert Latham and William Matthews went back to the 300-year-old original manuscript and deciphered each passage and phrase, no matter how obscure or indiscreet. The Diary deals with some of the most dramatic events in English history. Pepys witnessed the London Fire, the Great Plague, the Restoration of Charles II, and the Dutch Wars. He was a patron of the arts, having himself composed many delightful songs and participated in the artistic life of London. His flair for gossip and detail reveals a portrait of the times that rivals the most swashbuckling and romantic historical novels. In none of the earlier versions was there a reliable, full text, with commentary and notation with any claim to completeness. This edition, first published in 1970, is the first in which the entire diary is printed with systematic comment. This is the only complete edition available; it is as close to Pepys’s original as possible.

Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520225794
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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The editors went back to Pepys' original 300-year-old manuscript to reconstruct a complete edition of his "Diary" which deals with some of the most dramatic events in English history: the London Fire, the Great Plague, the Restoration of Charles II, and the Dutch Wars. "One of the glories of contemporary English publishing."--Michael Ratcliffe, "The Times." 11 illustrations. 5 maps.

Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520226944
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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Upon his death Samuel Pepys left six, calf-bound volumes filled with his daily diaries, pages recording the quotidian details of great but humble man living in a great time. The diaries are one of the most remarkable personal documents in the English language. Written with seriousness and humor, they are a unique blend of history and memoir, philosophy and broadsheet, gravitas and the light of wit. Samuel Pepys genius is in equal ranks with the British tradition that produced Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, and Woolf. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520225817
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Available for the first time in paperback: the definitive edition of Samuel Pepys' famous diary.