The Shorter Pepys - Hardcover

Samuel Pepys

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520034260 ISBN 13: 9780520034266

Publisher: University of California Press, 1985

Synopsis

Selections from Samuel Pepys' diary offers a vivid picture of seventeenth century British life, and are accompanied by background information concerning his life and times

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From Publishers Weekly:

The complete, 11-volume edition of Samuel Pepys's diaries, of which Latham was co-editor, was a monument of scholarship justly praised. Here for the delectation of the general reader is the most evocative and informative of the English diarists in one compact volume (about one-third of the original). The selections, preceded by a useful introduction, are judiciously representative of Pepys's concern to record both "the state of the nation" and his private affairs. He was not only Charles II's chief naval administrator, but a keen amateur of learning and an indefatigable enthusiast of politics, music, theater, womenlife. He sets down his daily experience with a journalist's eye for detail, something of a novelist's sensitivity and, since he is writing for himself, a delightful frankness. The classic accounts of the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Plague and the Fire are here; but whether Pepys is describing national events, frantically searching at midnight for his buried gold or trying to placate his wife ("my wife . . . did find me imbracing the girl con my hand sub su coats"), he never fails to entertain. Illustrations. BOMC bonus selection; Readers Subscription main selection. October
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0520034260
• ISBN 13: 9780520034266
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1170
• Editor: Robert Latham