Research Catalog

Title

Samuel Pepys : the unequalled self / Claire Tomalin.

Author

Tomalin, Claire.

Publication

New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002.

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Details

Description

xxxiii, 470 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits; 25 cm

Summary

• "For ten years, from 1660, Samuel Pepys kept one of the most remarkable records ever made of a human life.
• With astounding candour and perceptiveness he described his ambitions and speculations, his professional success and failures, his pettinesses and meannesses, his tenderness towards his wife and the irritation and jealousies she provoked, his extramarital longings and fumblings, his coolly critical attitude towards the king he served and his watchful adaptation to the corrupt and treacherous society in which he lived.".
• "Claire Tomalin traces Pepys's youth before the diary began, the poor tailor's son, the schoolboy who rejoiced at the execution of Charles I, the aspiring clerk working for Cromwell's senior officials and his transformation into a royalist who helped escort Charles II back to England and the throne.
• She illuminates his ability as an administrator and his greatness as a writer and she follows the extraordinary switchback career of triumphs and disasters that continued for three decades after the diary ended. Finally she shows how he made sure that the diary would be preserved for posterity, and how it took three centuries for the full text to be printed."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703
• Great Britain. Royal Navy > Officials and employees > Biography
• Cabinet officers > Great Britain > Biography
• Authors, English > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Biography
• English diaries > History and criticism
• Great Britain > History > Stuarts, 1603-1714 > Biography
• Great Britain > Social life and customs > 17th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-450) and index.

Contents

Pepys Family Tree -- Map 1. The London Dwellings of Samuel Pepys -- Map 2. Huntingdon, Hinchingbrooke and Brampton -- Pt. 1. 1633-1660 -- 1. The Elected Son -- 2. A Schoolboy's War: Huntingdon and St. Paul's -- 3. Cambridge and Clerking -- 4. Love and Pain -- 5. A House in Axe Yard -- 6. A Diary -- Pt. 2. 1660-1669 -- 7. Changing Sides -- 8. Families -- 9. Work -- 10. Jealousy -- 11. Death and Plague -- 12. War -- 13. Marriage -- 14. The King -- 15. The Fire -- 16. Three Janes -- 17. The Secret Scientist -- 18. Speeches and Stories -- 19. Surprise and Disorder -- Pt. 3. 1669-1703 -- 20. After the Diary -- 21. Public and Private Life -- 22. Plots -- 23. Travels for the Stuarts -- 24. Whirligigs -- 25. The Jacobite -- 26. A Journey to be Made.

ISBN

0375411437

LCCN

2002075701

OCLC

• ocm50002487
• SCSB-13972212

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries