Author: Henry Wheatley
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041222460
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 373
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Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived in
Author: Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 356
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The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
Author: Margaret Willes
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300221398
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Introduction: curiouser and curiouser -- 'The world do not grow old at all' -- Two worlds -- The decade of the diaries -- Prodigious revolutions -- 'Even private families are ... the best of governments' -- Private lives -- 'I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure' -- Take nobody's word for it -- Pleasure above all things -- Hortulan affairs -- Exotic extravagances -- The affection which we have to books -- Epilogue: and so to bed -- Appendix: the true domestick intelligence
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300221398
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Introduction: curiouser and curiouser -- 'The world do not grow old at all' -- Two worlds -- The decade of the diaries -- Prodigious revolutions -- 'Even private families are ... the best of governments' -- Private lives -- 'I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure' -- Take nobody's word for it -- Pleasure above all things -- Hortulan affairs -- Exotic extravagances -- The affection which we have to books -- Epilogue: and so to bed -- Appendix: the true domestick intelligence
Samuel Pepys and His Books
Author: Kate Loveman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198732686
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
"This study uses [Pepys's] surviving papers to examine reading practices, collecting, and the exchange of information in the late 17th century"--Back cover.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198732686
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
"This study uses [Pepys's] surviving papers to examine reading practices, collecting, and the exchange of information in the late 17th century"--Back cover.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys ...
Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Samuel Pepys
Author: Claire Tomalin
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307427595
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would establish him as the greatest diarist in the English language. Against the backdrop of plague, civil war, and regicide, with John Milton composing diplomatic correspondence for Oliver Cromwell, Christopher Wren drawing up plans to rebuild London, and Isaac Newton advancing the empirical study of the world around us, Tomalin weaves a breathtaking account of a figure who has passed on to us much of what we know about seventeenth-century London. We witness Pepys’s early life and education, see him advising King Charles II before running to watch the great fire consume London, learn about the great events of the day as well as the most intimate personal details that Pepys encrypted in the Diary, follow him through his later years as a powerful naval administrator, and come to appreciate how Pepys’s singular literary enterprise would in many ways prefigure our modern selves. With exquisite insight and compassion, Samuel Pepys captures the uniquely fascinating figure whose legacy lives on more than three hundred years after his death.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307427595
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would establish him as the greatest diarist in the English language. Against the backdrop of plague, civil war, and regicide, with John Milton composing diplomatic correspondence for Oliver Cromwell, Christopher Wren drawing up plans to rebuild London, and Isaac Newton advancing the empirical study of the world around us, Tomalin weaves a breathtaking account of a figure who has passed on to us much of what we know about seventeenth-century London. We witness Pepys’s early life and education, see him advising King Charles II before running to watch the great fire consume London, learn about the great events of the day as well as the most intimate personal details that Pepys encrypted in the Diary, follow him through his later years as a powerful naval administrator, and come to appreciate how Pepys’s singular literary enterprise would in many ways prefigure our modern selves. With exquisite insight and compassion, Samuel Pepys captures the uniquely fascinating figure whose legacy lives on more than three hundred years after his death.
The Story of the World's Literature
Author: John Albert Macy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Publisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith
Author: Sir Leslie Stephen
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: Biographical dictionary
Author:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Publisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Time, Space, and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century British Diary
Author: R. Steinitz
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230339603
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Through close examinations of diaries, diary publication, and diaries in fiction, this book explores how the diary's construction of time and space made it an invaluable and effective vehicle for the dominant discourses of the period; it also explains how the genre evolved into the feminine, emotive, private form we continue to privilege today.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230339603
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Through close examinations of diaries, diary publication, and diaries in fiction, this book explores how the diary's construction of time and space made it an invaluable and effective vehicle for the dominant discourses of the period; it also explains how the genre evolved into the feminine, emotive, private form we continue to privilege today.
Library of the World's Best Literature: Dictionary of authors
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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