Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520221672
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The essential anthology selected from Samuel Pepys's famous diary.
A Pepys Anthology
Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520221672
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The essential anthology selected from Samuel Pepys's famous diary.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520221672
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The essential anthology selected from Samuel Pepys's famous diary.
The Assassin's Cloak
Author: Irene Taylor
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1838852921
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
‘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.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1838852921
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
‘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.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S.
Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732652904
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. by Samuel Pepys
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732652904
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. by Samuel Pepys
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 1
Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
A Literary Christmas
Author: British Library
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712352765
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712352765
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
London
Author: Richard Fairman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712357401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712357401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"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.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S.
Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732652920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. by Samuel Pepys
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732652920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. by Samuel Pepys
English Family Life, 1576-1716
Author: Ralph Anthony Houlbrooke
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631148524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Uses excerpts from private diaries to depict seventeenth century life in England, and covers infancy, adolescence, courtship, marriage, old age, and death
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631148524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Uses excerpts from private diaries to depict seventeenth century life in England, and covers infancy, adolescence, courtship, marriage, old age, and death
Buried in Books
Author: Julie Rugg
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 9780711229235
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For bibliophiles, life is full of tricky problems: wondering whether a small trunk full of reading material can be taken on board as hand luggage; how to smuggle yet another guilty stash of tomes past the nearest and dearest. But as Julie Rugg shows in this anthology, bibliophiles are by no means new. For centuries bookish types have been delving in bibliophilia. Buried in Books is a compilation of more than 350 literary extracts, quotations, and bon mots arranged in 14 chapters that cover every aspect of bookish behavior: reading, buying, borrowing, recommending, hunting, even defacing. The selections range from short, pithy quotations to more extensive extracts, and they are taken from diaries, memoirs, novels, plays, and letters by authors from Samuel Pepys to Iain Sinclair, Laurence Sterne to Lucy Mangan. If you are an obsessive reader, stroke this book lovingly, listen as you riffle through the pages, and be proud: you are in good company.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 9780711229235
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For bibliophiles, life is full of tricky problems: wondering whether a small trunk full of reading material can be taken on board as hand luggage; how to smuggle yet another guilty stash of tomes past the nearest and dearest. But as Julie Rugg shows in this anthology, bibliophiles are by no means new. For centuries bookish types have been delving in bibliophilia. Buried in Books is a compilation of more than 350 literary extracts, quotations, and bon mots arranged in 14 chapters that cover every aspect of bookish behavior: reading, buying, borrowing, recommending, hunting, even defacing. The selections range from short, pithy quotations to more extensive extracts, and they are taken from diaries, memoirs, novels, plays, and letters by authors from Samuel Pepys to Iain Sinclair, Laurence Sterne to Lucy Mangan. If you are an obsessive reader, stroke this book lovingly, listen as you riffle through the pages, and be proud: you are in good company.