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Chargement... The Illustrated Pepys (1978)par Samuel Pepys
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This selection is from the new and complete transcription of the Diary of Samuel Pepys edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews, publised by Bell & hyman Ltd. ( ) I really enjoyed the perspective of events that this diary gives, and the added illustrations are wonderful. I have another copy, with no pictures, of the same book, and I am debating reading it just to see if it makes a difference in interpretation. I like the insight into Pepys himself (not a very likeable fellow, in my opinion) and into the world he called home. It is a pleasure to be able, after a suitable time period – aided by ”increasing maturity” - to reread Pepys, and the researcher and indeed, Pepys official librarian, Robert Latham presents an admirable selection of edited extracts in this, the illustrated, version of the main diaries of 1660 to 1669. As the editor remarks, it is a great pity that Samuel never resumed his daily journals in the following years as it was that later period that saw the deposing of his King and the “Glorious Revolution” of 1688. It would have been, Latham said ”one of the most important books never written.” Certainly, with Samuel Pepys as the author, it would have been personal, witty and more than a little “saucy”! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Samuel Pepys' FRS, MP, JP, (pron.: /pi?ps/;[1] 23 February 1633? 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration, to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and subsequently King James II. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy.[2] The detailed private diary Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London."--Wikipedia. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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