The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
Author: Margaret Willes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0300221398
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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