Title: Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
Author: Claire Tomalin
Published: 2007
Language: Ukrainian
ISBN: 9780141910314
Publisher: Penguin Adult
Pages: 528
Extension: EPUB
Size: 5 MB
Subjects: History, Awards, Biography, Literature, European History, Military Biography, Military History, Literary Biography, Literary Criticism, British History - General & Miscellaneous, Europe - Armed Forces - Biography, British & Commonwealth - Armed Forces, British & Irish Literary Biography, English Literature, Navy & Naval History, 17th Century British History - General & Miscellaneous, 17th Century British History - Stuart Dynasty, 1603-1649, 17th Century British History - Stuart Restoration, 1660-1714, British Armed Forces - Biography, British Authors - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Biography, British History - Military History, British History - Social Aspects, English Fiction & Prose Literature - 16th-17th Century - Literary Criticism, Great Britain - Royal Navy & Marines, 2002 Whitbread Book Award Winners, 2003 Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlist, Atlantic Monthly's Best Nonfiction of 2002, Biography->Costa/Whitbread Book Award, Book of the Year->Costa/Whitbread Book Award, New York Times Editor's Choice 2003
Categories: History, Awards, Biography, Literature, European History, Military Biography, Military History, Literary Biography, Literary Criticism, British History - General & Miscellaneous, Europe - Armed Forces - Biography, British & Commonwealth - Armed Forces, British & Irish Literary Biography, English Literature, Navy & Naval History, 17th Century British History - General & Miscellaneous, 17th Century British History - Stuart Dynasty, 1603-1649, 17th Century British History - Stuart Restoration, 1660-1714, British Armed Forces - Biography, British Authors - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Biography, British History - Military History, British History - Social Aspects, English Fiction & Prose Literature - 16th-17th Century - Literary Criticism, Great Britain - Royal Navy & Marines, 2002 Whitbread Book Award Winners, 2003 Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlist, Atlantic Monthly's Best Nonfiction of 2002, Biography->Costa/Whitbread Book Award, Book of the Year->Costa/Whitbread Book Award, New York Times Editor's Choice 2003
For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys , Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would establish him as the greatest diarist in the English language.
Against the backdrop of plague, civil war, and regicide, with John Milton composing diplomatic correspondence for Oliver Cromwell, Christopher Wren drawing up plans to rebuild London, and Isaac Newton advancing the empirical study of the world around us, Tomalin weaves a breathtaking account of a figure who has passed on to us much of what we know about seventeenth-century London. We witness Pepys's early life and education, see him advising King Charles II before running to watch the great fire consume London, learn about the great events of the day as well as the most intimate personal details that Pepys encrypted in the Diary, follow him through his later years as a powerful naval administrator, and come to appreciate how Pepys's singular literary enterprise would in many ways prefigure our modern selves. With exquisite insight and compassion, Samuel Pepys captures the uniquely fascinating figure whose legacy lives on more than three hundred years after his death. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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