Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self - Brossura

Tomalin, Claire

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ISBN 10: 0140282343 ISBN 13: 9780140282344

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2003

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

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. She is the author of six highly acclaimed biographies and has won the Whitbread First Book Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography. Claire Tomalin lives in Camden Town, London with her husband Michael Frayn.

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• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0140282343
• ISBN 13: 9780140282344
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 544