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Diary of Samuel Pepys
Written by Samuel Pepys
Narrated by Michael Maloney
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys is perhaps the most well known collection of reminiscences. He maintained it, in secrecy, from 1660, the year of the Restoration, until 1669 when fear of blindness prevented his daily labours. Though it covers less than a decade, it offers a lively and detailed insight into a period and a personality – for he noted events in both public and private life. Famous passages include descriptions of The Plague and the Great Fire of London. In this presentation, key sections are set in historical context.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the most honest, perceptive and vivid first person accounts of a fascinating period.Teeming with life and directly connecting the major and minor players of seventeenth century England to the present with his eye for human vanities, joys of life and the motivations of power and class.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A great book which takes you back more than three centuries back, in the turbulent London of the Civil War & Restoration. There are a number of obscure—and sometimes uninteresting—passages where Pepys details his problems at work. But they are intermixed with everyday-life details which show that life in the 17c. wasn't so different from that in the present time (e.g. ordering and delivery of a new coach, supervision of the work done by carpenters at home, problems with the cesspool, where to stop over in town when you needed to pass a motion, &c.) The reading of this 3-volume selection of the Diary incites me to seriously consider the reading of the full 11-vol version...