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Parliament member and the trusted confidant of Charles II, Pepys details the Great Fire of London, the horrors of the Plague, the display of the head of Oliver Cromwell at Westminster Hall, more.
Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486137457
Parliament member and the trusted confidant of Charles II, Pepys details the Great Fire of London, the horrors of the Plague, the display of the head of Oliver Cromwell at Westminster Hall, more.
Author : Samuel Pepys
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Page : pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : Samuel Pepys
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Page : 330 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 1969
Category : England
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Author : Samuel Pepys
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Page : 127 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 2017-11-03
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ISBN : 9780260248770
Excerpt from Passages From the Diary of Samuel Pepys: Edited and With an Introduction by Richard Le Gallienne Vivid, unconscious writing, it is infinitely delight ful and precious, scarcely to be over-valued. One reason, of course, for this is that its writer had no idea of making a book at all. It 15 plain beyond doubt 5 that he never dreamed of human eyes falling upon his blessedly frank and naked page. The record was a secret between himself and his own soul, not for getting his God, - whom, as will be seen, he is far from forgetting, and whom he invokes on many curi ous occasions. Most diarists have written with an eye to publication, or, at all events, with the fear before them of posthumous inspection by the family. They have, therefore, more or less posed themselves, as they would have others see them. Most of us have kept diaries in our youth. They are for most people merely the pool of Narcissus. With that dwindling sense of our own importance, as contrasted say with the planet Jupiter, which comes with maturity, most of us have abandoned them. With the abdication of the ego, they become tiresome to us, and absurdly self-important. Pepys, however, though certainly not an egoist, in our modern sense of the word, never lost interest in himself or his affairs. That may per haps be regarded as one of the many signs of that robust health of mind and body with which his diary abounds. But it is a childlike, boyish interest. It is not so much himself that interests him, nor merely the things that happen to himself, but the people about him and the things that are happening to everybody, all the time, to his nation as well as to his acquaint-7. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Evelyn
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Page : 452 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Europe
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Author : HardPress
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 2013-06
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ISBN : 9781314240733
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520036338
Illustrated version of selected passages from Pepys' diary between 1660 and 1669, showing his robust enjoyment of both his public and private lives
Author : Samuel Pepys
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Page : pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2004
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Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0141397551
'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops' A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.