The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn - Brossura

Willes, Margaret

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ISBN 10: 0300238681 ISBN 13: 9780300238686

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2018

Riassunto

An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history

Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times.
 
Pepys was earthy and shrewd, while Evelyn was a genteel aesthete, but both were drawn to intellectual pursuits. Brought together by their work to alleviate the plight of sailors caught up in the Dutch wars, they shared an inexhaustible curiosity for life and for the exotic. Willes explores their mutual interests—diary-keeping, science, travel, and a love of books—and their divergent enthusiasms, Pepys for theater and music, Evelyn for horticulture and garden design. Through the richly documented lives of two remarkable men, Willes revisits the history of London and of England in an age of regicide, revolution, fire, and plague to reveal it also as a time of enthralling possibility.

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L'autore:

Margaret Willes, formerly publisher at the National Trust, is author of several books, including Reading Matters and The Gardens of the British Working Class. She lives in London.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0300238681
• ISBN 13: 9780300238686
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 282