The Concise Pepys

Pepys. Samuel; Tom Griffith (General Editor), Stuart Sim (Introduction by)

ISBN 10: 1853264784 / ISBN 13: 9781853264788

Published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd., Hertfordshire, UK, 1997

About this Item

804 pp. Some pencil markings on first third of book. Tight binding. Good reading copy. Wordsworth Classic of World Literature Series.

Seller Inventory # 1iBf0014

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Concise Pepys
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd., Hertfordshire, UK
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853264784
• ISBN 13: 9781853264788
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: John Riley (1646-91)
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • English & British Studies, Literature, History
  • History, Historiography & Studies

About this title

Synopsis

The Concise Pepys by Samuel Pepys. Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began his celebrated diary on 1st January 1660 immediately prior to the Restoration of Charles II to the throne and the subsequent loosening of the rigid moral and social code enforced during the Puritan Commonwealth. As variously Clerk to the Council, a Member of Parliament, a prisoner in the Tower of London, twice Secretary to the Admiralty and President of the Royal Society, Pepys was in a unique position to observe and record in detail a fascinating ten-year period of English history which included not only the Restoration, but the Great Plague of 1665 and the Fire of London the following year. However it was not only the affairs of State which took up the great diarist's interest, for he was a regular attendant at the King's Theatre, was a hearty eater and drinker and delighted in recording his fondness for women, especially his own and his friends' young servant girls.

About the Author

Samuel Pepys was the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II. His influence and reforms were important in the early professionalization of the Royal Navy.

Tom Griffith has also translated Plato's The Republic, Symposium, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, and Phaedrus.