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The Diary of Samuel Pepys1660 - 1669. E-book. Formato PDF Samuel Pepys - Diamond Book Publishing, 2021 -
When Samuel Pepys began writing his secret journal in 1660 he was just a young clerk living in London. Over the next nine years, he became eyewitness to some of the most significant events in seventeenth-century English history, among them, the Restoration, the Great Plague of London in 1665, and the Great Fire of London in 1666. Pepys’s diary gives vivid descriptions of spectacular events, but much of the richness of the work lies in the details it provides about the minor dramas of daily life. While Pepys was keen to hear the king’s views, he was also always ready to talk with a soldier, a housekeeper, or a child rag-picker. He records with searing frankness his tumultuous personal life, including his marriage, infidelities, ambitions, and power schemes. He recounts with relish all the latest scandals, and reflects his voracious delight in music, food, books, scientific discoveries, and fashion. The result is a lively, often astonishing diary and an unrivaled account of life in seventeenth-century London.
Diary of Sam Pepys, Esq. F. R. S: With Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke, and With Numerous Portraits. E-book. Formato PDF Samuel Pepys - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Cholmley, who insured as many as would, from drawing of the one blank for in which case there was the whole number of persons to one, which I think was three or four hundred. And so he insured about zoo for zoo shillings, so that he could not have lost if one of them had drawn it; for there was enough to pay the 101. But it happened another drew it, and so he got all the money he took.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, From 1659 to 1669: With Memoir. E-book. Formato PDF Samuel Pepys - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The original ms. Of the Diary, which gives so vivid a picture of manners in the reign of Charles II., is preserved in Magdalene College, Cambridge; it is in six volumes, containing upwards of 3000 pages, closely written in Rich s system of shorthand, which Pepys doubtless adopted from the possibility of his journal falling into unfriendly hands during his life, or being rashly communicated to the public after his death. The original spelling of every word in the Diary, it is believed, has been carefully preserved by the gentleman who de'ciphered it; and although Pepys's grammar has been objected to, it is thought that the entries derive additional interest from the quaint terms in which they are expressed.