Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 2000-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520221672
The essential anthology selected from Samuel Pepys's famous diary.
Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Irene Taylor
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1838852921
'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen', wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The Assassin's Cloak gathers together some of the most entertaining and inspiring entries for each day of the year, as writers ranging from Queen Victoria to Andy Warhol, Samuel Pepys to Adrian Mole, pen their musings on the historic and the mundane. Spanning centuries and international in scope, this peerless anthology pays tribute to a genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms. This new updated edition is published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the book's original publication.
Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 1970-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520015754
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.
Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520226982
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 : British Library
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2018-09
Category : Christmas
ISBN : 9780712352765
This seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of times old and new--from John Donne's Elizabethan hymn over the baby Jesus to Benjamin Zephaniah's "Talking Turkeys," from Thomas Tusser counting the cost of a Tudor feast to P. G. Wodehouse's wry story about Christmas on a diet. Enjoy a Christmas Day as described by Samuel Pepys, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, or Nancy Mitford. Venture out into the snow in the company of Jane Austen, Henry James, and Dickens's Mr. Pickwick. Entertain the children with the seasonal tales of Dylan Thomas, Kenneth Grahame, and Oscar Wilde.
Author : Richard Fairman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780712357401
"This anthology features a wide-ranging collection of poems and scenes from novels that stretch from the fifteenth century to the present day. From well-known texts to others that are less familiar, here is London brought to life through the words of many of the greatest writers in the English language."--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Paul Bailey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780192832443
The bemusement of foreign visitors, the joys and horrors of London buses and the London Underground, the sprawl of the suburbs and the excitement of the City, all add to the dazzling panorama. There could be no better introduction, and no better tribute to this fascinating city than The Oxford Book of London.
Author : Thomas Mallon
Publisher : Ruminator Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781886913028
An investigation into the art and history of diary writing as well as a guide to the great diaries and private chronicles of the famous, the infamous, and the anonymous
Author : Ralph Anthony Houlbrooke
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780631148524
Uses excerpts from private diaries to depict seventeenth century life in England, and covers infancy, adolescence, courtship, marriage, old age, and death
