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Book Samuel Pepys and His Books

Download or read book Samuel Pepys and His Books written by Kate Loveman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses Pepys's surviving papers to examine reading practices, book collecting, and the exchange of information in the late 17th century.

Book The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys written by Samuel Pepys and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys written by Samuel Pepys and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys written by Samuel Pepys and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Pepys gives a unique first hand account of life during the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London. Pepys stayed in London while many of the wealthy fled the city in the face of the plague. His careful observation and interest in the details of people's lives as well as the events of the time are unparalleled.

Book The Joys of Excess

    Book Details:
  • Author : Samuel Pepys
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2011-04-07
  • ISBN : 0141966033
  • Pages : 77 pages

Download or read book The Joys of Excess written by Samuel Pepys and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as being the most celebrated diarist of all time, Samuel Pepys was also a hearty drinker, eater and connoisseur of epicurean delights, who indulged in every pleasure seventeenth-century London had to offer. Whether he is feasting on barrels of oysters, braces of carps, larks' tongues and copious amounts of wine, merrymaking in taverns until the early hours, attending formal dinners with lords and ladies or entertaining guests at home with his young wife, these irresistible selections from Pepys's diaries provide a frank, high-spirited and vivid picture of the joys of over-indulgence - and the side-effects afterwards.

Book The Diary of Samuel Pepys M A  F R S

Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys M A F R S written by Samuel Pepys and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. by Samuel Pepys

Book The Shorter Pepys

Download or read book The Shorter Pepys written by Samuel Pepys and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book The Illustrated Pepys

Download or read book The Illustrated Pepys written by Samuel Pepys and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social life and customs of 17th Century England are vividly portrayed in these extracts from the diary of Samuel Pepys.

Book The Diary of Samuel Pepys     Complete

Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys Complete written by Samuel Pepys and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 2865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Great Fire of London

Download or read book The Great Fire of London written by Samuel Pepys and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops' A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Book The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn

Download or read book The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn written by Margaret Willes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book The Diary of Samuel Pepys s Clerk

Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys s Clerk written by Philip Wooderson and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively black and white series aims to make history into an interesting read. Each title is the personal diary of a teenager, set against the background of a specific historical time. The books include details of daily life, relations with family and friends, jokes and humorous events, doubts and hopes and dreams. The storyline of each book employs interesting historical facts designed to give an understanding of the period, in line with the National Curriculum; the diary format supports the National Literacy Strategy. Samuel Pepys's Clerk - It is 1665 and young tearaway Will Scratch has got a job. He is going to London to work as a clerk for Mr Samuel Pepys at the Navy Office.

Book The Letters of Samuel Pepys  1656 1703

Download or read book The Letters of Samuel Pepys 1656 1703 written by Samuel Pepys and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The correspondence included here represents the first selection of Pepys's letters drawn from all possible sources to be published since 1933. Since the Diary does not cover this period, the letters enable the reader to follow Pepys' early career on the staff of the Earl of Sandwich, his rise to greatness as Secretary of the Admiralty, and his retirement after the Glorious Revolution. Along the way Pepys fought battles with opponents of his naval reforms and enemies who tried to implicate him in the Popish Plot, while taking care of his various relatives and keeping up with an array of friends and acquaintances who included many of the great and famous of late-seventeenth-century England. The letters have been chosen to reflect all these aspects of Pepys's varied and fascinating life, and include 30 never before published. They are accompanied by a running commentary, biographies of persons mentioned, a glossary, a chronology, and an introduction that explains how the letters have survived and analyses how they were written.BR>Guy de la Bédoyère is a historian and archaeologist with numerous books to his credit. His specialist field is Roman Britain but he has published three books for Boydell on the 'other' seventeenth-century diarist, John Evelyn (1620-1706), including the widely-acclaimed Particular Friends: The Correspondence of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn which features all the letters exchanged by the two men over a period of 38 years.

Book Walking Pepys s London

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jacky Colliss Harvey
  • Publisher : Haus Publishing
  • Release : 2021-08-15
  • ISBN : 1913368297
  • Pages : 117 pages

Download or read book Walking Pepys s London written by Jacky Colliss Harvey and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings to life the world of Samuel Pepys with five walks through London. Samuel Pepys, the seventeenth century's best-known diarist, walked around London for miles, chronicling these walks in his diary. He made the two-and-a-half-mile trek to Whitehall from his house near the Tower of London on an almost daily basis. These streets, where many of his professional conversations took place while walking, became for him an alternative to his office. With Walking Pepys’s London, we come to know life in London from the pavement up and see its streets from the perspective of this renowned diarist. The city was a key character in Pepys’s life, and this book draws parallels between his experience of seventeenth-century London and the lives of Londoners today. Bringing together geography, biography, and history, Jacky Colliss Harvey reconstructs the sensory and emotional experience of Pepys’s time. Full of fascinating details, Walking Pepys’s London is a sensitive exploration into the places that made the greatest English diarist of all time.

Book Pepys and His Contemporaries

Download or read book Pepys and His Contemporaries written by Richard Lawrence Ollard and published by National Portrait Gallery Comp. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Pepys's Diary stands with Shakespeare and the King James Bible as an indisputable treasure of English literature. As a picture of England, and especially of London, in the age of King Charles II, of Wren and Newton and Nell Gwyn, of the Plague and the Great Fire, it is a rare and honest report that charts the key events of the day. In this book, Richard Ollard introduces the man himself, his friends and acquaintances - including Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, Charles II and John Evelyn - who Pepys wrote about with such humour and abandon. Illustrated with painted portraits, busts, engravings, and an extract from the Diary in Pepys's original shorthand, this is a highly visual book that charts those men and women who surrounded Pepys.

Book When Flesh Becomes Word

Download or read book When Flesh Becomes Word written by Bradford Keyes Mudge and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for scholars and students of British literature, this text is a collection of nine different examples of British libertine literature that appeared before 1750.

Book Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester

Download or read book Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester written by Nigel Pickford and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of royal intrigue—with famed diarist Samuel Pepys as the main protagonist—as a fatal shipwreck on the shores of Restoration Britain sparks a mystery that now may finally be solved. In 1682, Charles II invited his scandalous younger brother, James, Duke of York, to return from exile and take his rightful place as heir to the throne. To celebrate, the future king set sail in a fleet of eight ships destined for Edinburgh, where he would reunite with his young pregnant wife. Yet disaster struck en route, somewhere off the Norfolk coast. The royal frigate carrying James and his entourage sank, causing some two hundred sailors and courtiers to perish. The diarist Samuel Pepys had been asked to sail with James but refused the invitation, preferring to travel in one of the other ships. Why? What did he know that others did not? Religious and political tensions were rife in the years leading up to the wreck of the Gloucester. James was a Catholic, as was his wife, and there was a large constituency who wished them dead. Plots and conspiracies abounded. The Royal Navy was itself in disarray, badly equipped and poorly organised. Could someone on board be to blame for the sinking, either from malice or incompetence? Nigel Pickford’s compelling account of the catastrophe draws on a richness of historical material including letters, diaries and ships’ logs, revealing for the first time the full drama and tragic consequences of a shipwreck that shook Restoration Britain.