Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In

Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In

[v] PREFACE. This little book does not need any long Preface, as the title sufficiently explains the object aimed at. Although the various subjects referred to in the Diary are annotated in the different editions, there is in none of these any complete analysis of the entire work or of the incidents of Pepyss life. I have endeavoured in the following pages to draw together some of the most interesting incidents of the Diary relating both to Pepyss life and to the manners of his time, and also to illustrate them from other sources. I have used the best edition of the Diary, by the Rev. Mynors Bright; but in order that this book may form a companion to all editions I have referred[vi] to the date of the entries rather than to the volume and page. It must therefore be understood that the passages referred to when not met with in the other editions will be found among the hitherto unpublished matter of that of Mr. Bright. It has been my endeavour to illustrate the contents of this entertaining work more completely than has previously been attempted, and several of the circumstances of Pepyss life are here brought prominently forward for the first time. I may add that the whole of the present volume was printed off before the appearance of the excellent article in the July number of the Edinburgh Review (1880), as otherwise it might be supposed that certain points had been suggested by that article. I have, however, availed myself of its pages to make a correction of a small matter in the Index. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 51757
Author: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin)
Release Date: Apr 14, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English