Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-05-28
Total Pages: 2865
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher:
Published: 2020-04-16
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781789430998
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1970-07
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 0520015754
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague, the Fire of London - Pepys provides a definitive eyewitness account. Along with lively descriptions of his socializing, his amorous entanglements, his theater-going & music-making. Unequaled for its frankness, high spirits & sharp observations, the diary is both a literary masterpiece & a marvelous portrait of 17th-century life. Acclaimed by 'The Times' as "one of the glories of contemporary English publishing" and by Sir Arthur Bryant as "complete perfection", the Latham and Matthews edition remains the authoritative text and provides the source for this magnificent Folio Society publication.
Author: Kate Loveman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0198732686
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Uses Pepys's surviving papers to examine reading practices, book collecting, and the exchange of information in the late 17th century.
Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780520051133
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The social life and customs of 17th Century England are vividly portrayed in these extracts from the diary of Samuel Pepys.
Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-04-05
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 3732652912
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original: The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. by Samuel Pepys
Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 1164
ISBN-13: 9780520034266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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