Author: Samuel Pepys
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2865

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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: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736407572
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 3474

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Samuel Pepys PRS, MP, JP was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is most famous for the diary that he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Pepys had no maritime experience, but he rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II through patronage, hard work, and his talent for administration. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy. The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London.

Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 688

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Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520225794
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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The editors went back to Pepys' original 300-year-old manuscript to reconstruct a complete edition of his "Diary" which deals with some of the most dramatic events in English history: the London Fire, the Great Plague, the Restoration of Charles II, and the Dutch Wars. "One of the glories of contemporary English publishing."--Michael Ratcliffe, "The Times." 11 illustrations. 5 maps.

Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Author: Samuel Pepys
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Category : Cabinet officers
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1224

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Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 2551

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Pepys’ Diary is a decade-long snapshot of the life of an up and coming naval administrator in mid-17th century London. In it he describes everything from battles against the Dutch and the intrigues of court, to the plays he saw, his marital infidelities, and the quality of the meat provided for his supper. His incredibly frank observations have proved invaluable in establishing an accurate record of the daily life of the people of London of that period. Pepys eventually stopped keeping the diary due to progressive deterioration of his eyesight, fearing that continuing to write would worsen the condition. He did consider employing an amanuensis to transcribe future entries for him, but worried that the content he wanted written would be too personal. Luckily for Pepys, his eyesight difficulties never progressed to blindness and he was able to go on to become both a Member of Parliament and the President of the Royal Society, but he never resumed his diarism. After Pepys’ death he left his large library of books and manuscripts first to his nephew, which was then passed on to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where it survives to this day. The diary, originally written in a shorthand, was included in this trove and was eventually deciphered in the early 19th century, and published by Lord Baybrooke in 1825. This early release censored large amounts of the text, and it was only in the 1970s that an uncensored version was published. Presented here is the 1893 edition, which restores the majority of the originally censored content but omits “a few passages which cannot possibly be printed.” The rich collection of endnotes serves to further illustrate the lives of the people Pepys meets and the state of internal politics and international relations during the English Restoration. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520225817
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Available for the first time in paperback: the definitive edition of Samuel Pepys' famous diary.