Samuel Pepys
The Unequalled Self
Claire Tomalin(Author)
Jill Balcon(Speaker)
Penguin Audiobooks (Publisher)
Published on 3. October 2002
Audio
Audio cassette
4 pages
978-0-14-180398-2 (ISBN)
Description
A full-scale biography of naval administrator Samuel Pepys, who was well-known for being the friend of the famous and powerful. This text, which draws on Pepys' own personal diary, covers his childhood and young adulthood. It moves through the famous diary years and beyond, to the death of his wife and the setting up of a new household. While using the diary as a source, the author goes beyond its narrative to the inner man, at the same time revealing life as a young man in Restoration London. Explored within are Pepys' relations with women, his fears and ambitions, his political shifts and his agonies and delights.
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Edition
Abridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Edition type
Abridged edition
Dimensions
Height: 142 mm
Width: 108 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Duration
Dauer: 390 min
Weight
228 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-180398-2 (9780141803982)
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Persons
Claire Tomalin has worked in publishing and journalism all her life, becoming literary editor first of the New Statesman and then of the Sunday Times, which she left in 1986. Wonderfully readable, she has written five highly acclaimed biographies - of Mary Wollstonecraft, Katherine Mansfield, Dickens' mistress Nelly Ternan, the 18th-century actress Mrs Jordan and Jane Austen. Claire Tomalin lives in Camden Town, London with her husband Michael Frayn.