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by: Samuel Pepys  Dewey Decimal Number: 941.066092 EAN: 9780004990279 ISBN: 0004990277 Label: Harpercollins Manufacturer: Harpercollins Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 450 Publication Date: 1995-12 Publisher: Harpercollins Studio: Harpercollins Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague and the Fire of London - Pepys provides a definitive eyewitness account, along with lively descriptions of his socializing, his amorous entanglements, his theatre-going and music-making. Unequalled for its frankness, high spirits and sharp observations, the diary is both a literary classic and a marvellous portrait of 17th-century life. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Love It!I purchased the audiobook read by Kenneth Branagh. He does a great job with the reading. The diary itself is very revealing. I learned a lot about the times in which Samuel Pepys lived. Rating: - Excellent exposure to 17th century EnglandVery entertaining and enlightening. Pepys gives us a glimpse of what life was like in that period before the "Glorious Revolution" in England which was so important in the developement of democracy in England and the United States. Pepys was on the wrong side of that revolution - a loyalist to King Charles II, although he was never convicted of treason. Good thing, since there seemed to be a lot of beheadings, etc. in that era. Occasionally, it is not absolutely clear what Pepys is talking about, ... Read More Rating: - A real inside look at history!When I started reading the diary, I expected it to be extremely boring and very old fashioned (seeing how it was written in the 1600's) - how wrong I was!!! Samuel Pepys (pronounced 'peeps') is a human, funny, moody man who has his ups and downs like the rest of us. His narrative during the plague records his concern about neighbors, and his real sorrow when people he knows succumb to it. He also records his experiences during the great fire of London in 1666 and his first mention of it strikes ... Read More Rating: - Diary of Samuel Pepys-Vol. X - CompanionIt is kind of hard to match up these reviews of the Pepys' Diary with specific volumes, probably due to the nature of ISBN numbers. However, this review is about Volume 10, the Companion to the 10 vol. set of paperbacks (complete edition) by the University of California Press. IT IS a valuable book indeed, being 1700 entries, alphabetically arranged, on the details about the people and places mentioned in the Diary. It has 626 numbered pages and genealogical tables and maps. Rating: - A few words about Pepys and the diary of the soul There are on the Amazon site two excellent, informative reviews of the Pepys' diaries. They say far more than my own contribution. I have read in and out of the Pepys' diary more than once. I did this in part because I have read many times that they are the ' best diaries' ever written. Without contending with that I found that they were not for me the most interesting. This probably shows more about my own shortcomings than it does about the work of Pepys. Pepys' work is filled with description ... Read More 
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