Diary of Samuel Pepys (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Samuel Pepys; Richard Le Gallienne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679642218 ISBN 13: 9780679642213

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2001

Synopsis

In this second part of the famous diary specially adapted for audio, Pepys gives us vivid eye-witness accounts of two famous events: the Plague and the Great Fire of London. Not only do we learn how these two events affected the people of London but also how Pepys and his family were affected, along with his usual minute observations of seventeenth century London life.

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Review:

"Pepys led a full, varied and voraciously-enjoyed life and clearly took pleasure in setting it all down in plain words. Unlike most frantically busy men, he had remarkable powers of observation."
--Paul Johnson
"The bald truth about oneself, what we are all too timid to admit when we are not too dull to see it, that was what Pepys saw clearly and set down unsparingly."
--Robert Louis Stevenson
"Alexander conquered the world; but Pepys, with a keener, more selfish understanding of life, conquered a world for every sense."
--Charles Whibley

Book Description:

Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways star as Mr & Mrs Pepys in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the world famous diaries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0679642218
• ISBN 13: 9780679642213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352