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Diary of Samuel Pepys: The BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation (Audio CD) by Samuel Pepys
Category: Audio
Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways star as Mr & Mrs Pepys in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the world famous diaries. Samuel Pepys was 26 when he decided to start keeping a diary, in January 1660. For the next ten years he faithfully recorded the day's events and confessed his innermost thought ...Show more
Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys; Kate Loveman (Editor, Introduction by)
Category: Classics
When Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began writing in 1660 he was a young clerk living in London, struggling to pay his rent. Over the next nine years as he kept his journal, he rose to be a powerful naval administrator. He became eyewitness to some of the most significant events in seventeenth-century English ...Show more
The Concise Pepys by Samuel Pepys
Category: History | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began his celebrated diary on 1st January 1660 immediately prior to the Restoration of Charles II to the throne and the subsequent loosening of the rigid moral and social code enforced during the Puritan Commonwealth. As variously Clerk to the Council, a Member of Parliament, a ...Show more
The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
Category: History | Series: Modern Library
Originally scribbled in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys's quotidian journal of life in Restoration London provides an astonishingly frank and diverting account of political intrigues; naval, church, and cultural affairs; and the sexual escapades and domestic strife of a man with a voracious, childlike appeti ...Show more
The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys; Kate Loveman (Editor)
Category: History
A newly edited selection from the most famous, colorful, and vivid diarist in the English language--in the most accessible, uncensored, and clearly annotated edition available. Though he rose to become the most powerful administrator in King Charles II's navy, when Samuel Pepys began writing his secret ...Show more
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: a Selection by Samuel Pepys; Robert Latham (Selected by, Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Previously published as The Shorter Pepys, Samuel Pepys' The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection is a collection of scintillating first-hand accounts of Restoration England, from the most tumultuous events to the simplest domestic pleasures, selected and edited by Robert Latham. The 1660s represent a tur ...Show more
The Great Fire of London: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #47 by Samuel Pepys
Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'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 r ...Show more
The Great Fire of London - The Essential Guide by Adrian Tinniswood; Samuel Pepys; John Evelyn
Category: Classics
2 SEPTEMBER 1666: 350 YEARS SINCE THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDONIn the early hours of 2 September 1666 a small fire broke out in a bakery in Pudding Lane. In the five days that followed it grew into a conflagration that would devastate the third largest city in the Western world.This short edition is the esse ...Show more
The Joys of Excess by Samuel Pepys
Category: Food & Wine
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 ...Show more
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