A member of Parliament and the trusted confidant of Charles II, Pepys' unabashed curiosity allows readers to experience firsthand accounts of the Great Fire of London, the horrors of the Plague, the display of the head of Oliver Cromwell at Westminster Hall, along with suggestive accounts of the author's sexual dalliances.
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A vivid description of life in bygone England,
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This review is from: Diary of Samuel Pepys: Selected Passages (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) (Paperback)
Dover's republication of PASSAGES FROM THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS returns a 1921 classic to print, providing select passages from Pepys' more extensive DIARY recounting the Great Fire of London and the Plague years. A vivid description of life in bygone England evolves, recommended for college-level courses in period English history.
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Extensively abridged,
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This review is from: Diary of Samuel Pepys: Selected Passages (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) (Paperback)
This edition is very severly abridged, to the extent that it is meaningless. Before I began reading the Diary, I read Claire Tomalin's "Samuel Pepys, The Unequalled Self" which is excellent! She quoted extensively from the Diary as well as providing the historical and personal background that is crucial to understanding what and whom Pepys was writing about. There are entries that she quotes extensively, for example Monck's move against the Rump Parliment on February 11, 1660, which contains more information than the "selected passage" in the Diary. Aside from a very few meaningful passages, this edition is filled with short snippets of trivial activities of the day. It contains no heart, no soul which is what made the Diary famous in the first place. Instead of this book, I recommend Ms. Tomlin's book which is available at this very same botique.
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