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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.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Pepys Family Tree

Map 1: The London Dwellings of Samuel Pepys

Map 2: Huntingdon, Hinchingbrooke and Brampton

List of Principal Figures

Prologue

PART ONE

　The Elected Son

　A Schoolboy's War." Huntingdon and St. Paul's

　Cambridge and Clerking

　Love and Pain

　A House in Axe Yard

　A Diary

PART TWO

　Changing Sides

　Families

　Work

　Jealousy

　Death and Plague

　War

　Marriage

　The King

　……

PART THREE

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Text and Illustrations Permissions

Photographic sections Follow Pages

　　Claire Tomalin is the author of several acclaimed biographies:

The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; Shelley

and His World; Katharine Mansfield: A Secret

Life; The Invisible Woman: The Story of Ellen Ternan

and Charles Dickens; Mrs. Jordan’s

Profession; and Jane Austen. Educated at

Cambridge University, she served as literary editor of the New

Statesman and The Sunday Times. She lives in London with

her husband, the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.

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　　Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) is the most famous diarist in English

letters. From 1660 to 1669, he penned an unforgettable day-by-day

de*ion of Restoration London, with its disasters (the Great

Plague of 1665, the Great Fire of 1666), its tumultuous politics

and its amazing cultural fervor. Pepys's diary also describes his

eager womanizing, as he makes passes, often clumsily, at barmaids

and shop girls and the wives of his associates. It is Pepys's

intermingling of the public and the private that makes his diary so

remarkable. Tomalin (Jane Austin: A Life, etc.) really knows her

man, following him closely through some of the great events of

English history. As a young government clerk, Pepys allied himself

with his cousin Edward Montagu, who turned away from Cromwell to

help Charles II become king in 1660, and the Restoration made

Pepys's career. Highly organized, intelligent and a savvy political

infighter, as Tomalin portrays him, he became a leading navy

official and helped build the British navy into a world power.

Tomalin also brings us inside Pepys's personal life: his

tempestuous marriage, his romantic liaisons, his private, quite

negative feelings about King Charles II. Tomalin writes brilliant

chapters on all aspects of Pepys's life, relying not only on the

diary but also on impressive scholarship. Tomalin clearly admires

her subject, whose energy she constantly praises. For those who

have already enjoyed the diary, Tomalin's learned and entertaining

work admirably fills in the gaps. 16 pages of photos.

　　Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers

to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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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.