Author: Samuel PepysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Diary of Samuel Pepys ...
Author: Samuel PepysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
Author: Samuel PepysPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2874
Book Description
Samuel Pepys was an English diarist and naval administrator whose private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 (yet first published in the 19th century) is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. Besides personal revelations like court intrigue, gossip, living conditions, weather, diet, counterfeiting, public hangings, it also contains eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Author: Samuel PepysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 1
Author: Samuel PepysPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520015754
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague, the Fire of London - Pepys provides a definitive eyewitness account. Along with lively descriptions of his socializing, his amorous entanglements, his theater-going & music-making. Unequaled for its frankness, high spirits & sharp observations, the diary is both a literary masterpiece & a marvelous portrait of 17th-century life. Acclaimed by 'The Times' as "one of the glories of contemporary English publishing" and by Sir Arthur Bryant as "complete perfection", the Latham and Matthews edition remains the authoritative text and provides the source for this magnificent Folio Society publication.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Author: Samuel PepysPublisher:
ISBN: 9781789430981
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
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.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Author: Samuel PepysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
Author: Samuel PepysPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2865
Book Description
Samuel Pepys was an English diarist and naval administrator whose private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 (yet first published in the 19th century) is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. Besides personal revelations like court intrigue, gossip, living conditions, weather, diet, counterfeiting, public hangings, it also contains eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London.
The Shorter Pepys
Author: Samuel PepysPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520034266
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Selections from Samuel Pepys' diary offers a vivid picture of seventeenth century British life, and are accompanied by background information concerning his life and times
Samuel Pepys and His Books
Author: Kate LovemanPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198732686
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
"This study uses [Pepys's] surviving papers to examine reading practices, collecting, and the exchange of information in the late 17th century"--Back cover.
The Private Life of the Diary
Author: Sally BayleyPublisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783522232
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Diaries keep secrets, harbouring our fantasies and fictional histories. They are substitute boyfriends, girlfriends, spouses and friends. But in this age of social media, the role of the diary as a private confidante has been replaced by a culture of public self-disclosure. The Private Life of the Diary: from Pepys to Tweets is an elegantly-told story of the evolution – and perhaps death – of the diary. It traces its origins to seventeenth-century naval administrator, Samuel Pepys, and continues to twentieth-century diarist Virginia Woolf, who recorded everything from her personal confessions about her irritation with her servants to her memories of Armistice Day and the solar eclipse of 1927. Sally Bayley explores how diaries can sometimes record our lives as we live them, but that we often indulge our fondness for self-dramatization, like the teenaged Sylvia Plath who proclaimed herself 'The Girl Who Would be God'. This book is an examination of the importance of writing and self-reflection as a means of forging identity. It mourns the loss of the diary as an acutely private form of writing. And it champions it as a conduit to self-discovery, allowing us to ask ourselves the question: Who or What am I in relation to the world?