He was born in London, above the shop, just off Fleet Street, in Salisbury Court, where his father John Peps ran a tailoring business, one of many serving the lawyers living in the area.
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Samuel Pepys
the unequalled self
1st American ed.
by Claire Tomalin
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"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.
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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
November 11, 2003, Vintage, Vintage Books, a division of Random House Inc.
in English
0375725539 9780375725531
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Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self
2002, A.A. Knopf
in English
- 1st American ed.
0375411437 9780375411434
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-450) and index.
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Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the turbulent world around him, exactly what it was like to be a young man in Restoration London. This diary lies at the heart of Claire Tomalin's biography. Yet the use she makes of it - and of other hitherto unexamined material - is startlingly fresh and original. Within and beyond the narrative of Pepys's extraordinary career, she explores his inner life - his relations with women, his fears and ambitions, his political shifts, his agonies and his delights.
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