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The Diary of Samuel Pepys By Samuel Pepys

The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys


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The fourth volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys Summary

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume IV - 1663 by Samuel Pepys

The fourth volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

This complete edition of the Diary of Samuel Pepys comprises eleven volumes - nine volumes of text and footnotes (with an introduction of 120 pages in Volume I), a tenth volume of commentary (The Companion) and an eleventh volume of Index. Each of the first eight volumes contains one whole calendar year of the diary, from January to December. The ninth volume runs from January 1668 to May 1669.

The Diary was first published in abbreviated form in 1825. A succession of new editions, re-issues and selections, published in the Victorian ear, made the diary one of the best-known books, and Pepys one of the best-known figures, of English history. But in none of these versions - not even in the Wheatley, which for long stood as the standard edition - was there a reliable, still less a full text, and in none of them was there a commentary with any claim to completeness. This edition was in preparation for many years, and remains the first in which the entire diary is printed and in which an attempt has been made at systematic comment on it.

The primary aim of the principal editors was to see that the diary was presented in a manner suitable to the historical and literary importance of its contents. At the same time they had in mind the interests of the wide public of English-speaking people to whom the diarist himself, rather than the importance of what he wrote, is what matters.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys Reviews

'The Latham-Matthews transcription of Pepys' Diary is one of the glories of contemporary English publishing.'
The Times

'The pleasure of Pepys - of reading him - is his own pleasure in experience... Pepys' diary is the cheerful self-report, not of the man eminent in naval history, not of the historical witness, but of the unobjectionable hedonist.'
Guardian

'Here, in one of the finest feats in all the long history of scholarship, is Pepys' Diary, once and for all. Exegi monumentum aere perennius.'
Observer

'The editors have achieved the impossible... one can now read the Diary perfectly easily, month by month, year by year... here at last is a really learned edtiion where the learning is put at the disposal of the layman.'
New Statesman

'It isn't often that one encounters a publication - especially of this magnitude - which achieves complete perfection, but there is no doubt that this does.'
Sir Arthur Bryant

About Samuel Pepys

Robert Latham, cbe, ma, fba - Fellow and Pepys Librarian, Magdalene College, Cambridge, and formerly reader in History, Royal Holloway College, University of London.

William Matthews, ma, ph.d, d.lett - Late Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles, and Fellow of Birkbeck College, University of London.

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GOR005011503
9780004990248
0004990242
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume IV - 1663 by Samuel Pepys
Used - Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
19951228
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