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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Paperback - 2003
by Claire Tomalin
Tomalin intimately explores the life of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), renowned in his lifetime as a bureaucrat, a key figure in the British navy, and friend and colleague of the powerful.
Summary
Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the turbulent world around him, exactly what it was like to be a young man in Restoration London. This diary lies at the heart of Claire Tomalin's biography. Yet the use she makes of it - and of other hitherto unexamined material - is startlingly fresh and original. Within and beyond the narrative of Pepys's extraordinary career, she explores his inner life - his relations with women, his fears and ambitions, his political shifts, his agonies and his delights.
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He was born in London, above the shop, just off Fleet Street, in Salisbury Court, where his father John Peps ran a tailoring business, one of many serving the lawyers living in the area.
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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.
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.
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- Title Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- Author Claire Tomalin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Printing
- Pages 465
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date November 11, 2003
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780375725531 / 0375725539
- Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.22 x 1.18 in (20.47 x 13.26 x 3.00 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Officials and employees, Great Britain - Social life and customs -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002075701
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- BookPage, 11/01/2003, Page 41
- New York Times, 11/16/2003, Page 60
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