Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520051133
The social life and customs of 17th Century England are vividly portrayed in these extracts from the diary of Samuel Pepys.
Author : Samuel Pepys
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Page : 226 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781789430981
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
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,34 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 : Good Press
Page : 2874 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : History
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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.
Author : Margaret Willes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0300231725
An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times. Pepys was earthy and shrewd, while Evelyn was a genteel aesthete, but both were drawn to intellectual pursuits. Brought together by their work to alleviate the plight of sailors caught up in the Dutch wars, they shared an inexhaustible curiosity for life and for the exotic. Willes explores their mutual interests—diary-keeping, science, travel, and a love of books—and their divergent enthusiasms, Pepys for theater and music, Evelyn for horticulture and garden design. Through the richly documented lives of two remarkable men, Willes revisits the history of London and of England in an age of regicide, revolution, fire, and plague to reveal it also as a time of enthralling possibility.
Author : Richard Lawrence Ollard
Publisher : National Portrait Gallery Comp
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781855145856
Samuel Pepys's Diary stands with Shakespeare and the King James Bible as an indisputable treasure of English literature. As a picture of England, and especially of London, in the age of King Charles II, of Wren and Newton and Nell Gwyn, of the Plague and the Great Fire, it is a rare and honest report that charts the key events of the day. In this book, Richard Ollard introduces the man himself, his friends and acquaintances - including Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, Charles II and John Evelyn - who Pepys wrote about with such humour and abandon. Illustrated with painted portraits, busts, engravings, and an extract from the Diary in Pepys's original shorthand, this is a highly visual book that charts those men and women who surrounded Pepys.
Author : Samuel Pepys
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Page : 716 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Margaret Willes
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit, or listen to others reading. This book examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. Margaret Willes considers a selection of private and public libraries across the period—most of which have survived—showing the diversity of book owners and borrowers, from country-house aristocrats to modest farmers, from Regency ladies of leisure to working men and women. Exploring the collections of avid readers such as Samuel Pepys, Thomas Jefferson, Sir John Soane, Thomas Bewick, and Denis and Edna Healey, Margaret Willes also investigates the means by which books were sold, lending fascinating insights into the ways booksellers and publishers marketed their wares. For those who are interested in books and reading, and especially those who treasure books, this book and its bounty of illustrations will inform, entertain, and inspire.
