Pepys' Diary: 1660-1663 / 1664-1666 / 1667-1669
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
One of the most intimate and vivid windows into seventeenth-century England, Pepys' Diary stands as an unparalleled masterpiece of personal writing — a candid, unguarded record of daily life that captures the full sweep of a remarkable era, from the Restoration of Charles II to the Great Fire of London and the ravages of the Plague. Samuel Pepys, a rising naval administrator with an insatiable curiosity for life, chronicles with extraordinary frankness his professional ambitions, domestic dramas, cultural passions, and the grand political upheavals unfolding around him — all rendered in a prose of irresistible immediacy and warmth. This sumptuous three-volume Folio Society edition — spanning 1660 to 1669 — presents one of history's greatest primary sources in a format worthy of its stature, with elegant bindings that reflect the diary's lasting cultural prestige. Pepys writes not as a man performing for posterity, but as one unburdening himself in secret, and it is this quality of raw honesty — about desire, ambition, fear, and joy — that has secured the diary's place at the very heart of English literature. To read Pepys is to inhabit another century entirely; to close the book is to feel the loss of a friend.
Author: Samuel Pepys
Format: Hardback
Published: 1996, The Folio Society
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
One of the most intimate and vivid windows into seventeenth-century England, Pepys' Diary stands as an unparalleled masterpiece of personal writing — a candid, unguarded record of daily life that captures the full sweep of a remarkable era, from the Restoration of Charles II to the Great Fire of London and the ravages of the Plague. Samuel Pepys, a rising naval administrator with an insatiable curiosity for life, chronicles with extraordinary frankness his professional ambitions, domestic dramas, cultural passions, and the grand political upheavals unfolding around him — all rendered in a prose of irresistible immediacy and warmth. This sumptuous three-volume Folio Society edition — spanning 1660 to 1669 — presents one of history's greatest primary sources in a format worthy of its stature, with elegant bindings that reflect the diary's lasting cultural prestige. Pepys writes not as a man performing for posterity, but as one unburdening himself in secret, and it is this quality of raw honesty — about desire, ambition, fear, and joy — that has secured the diary's place at the very heart of English literature. To read Pepys is to inhabit another century entirely; to close the book is to feel the loss of a friend.