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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

by Claire Tomalin
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Revelatory portrait of diarist Samuel Pepys's life.

Claire Tomalin's biography 'Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self' takes you beyond the famous diary to the man himself. Her research is impeccable, diving into lesser-known documents to paint a full picture of Pepys. She uncovers the drama of his life with the same narrative flair he used to detail 17th-century England. It's not just about his musings; it's a vivid window into the Restoration era, told through the life of a man as complex as the times he chronicled. If you're captivated by the rich tapestry of history and personal saga, this biography will resonate with you.

  • Whitbread Award for Biography and Book of the Year (2002)
  • Samuel Pepys Award (2003)
  • Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee (2003)
  • Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

by Claire Tomalin
$16.90 Now $11.90 Save 30% more
ISBN: 9780375411434
Authors: Claire Tomalin
Publisher: Knopf
Date of Publication: 2002-11-12
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Personal Development, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Memoir, Biography, Autobiography, Personal Development, Historical, European History, Biography Memoir
Goodreads rating: 3.88
(rated by 4216 readers)

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The seventeenth century saw a revolution in man’s thought, as Isaac Newton and others began the scientific study of the universe around them. At the same time a shrewd young civil servant in London began to observe, with something of the same dispassionate curiosity, the strange object around which, for him, the universe revolved–himself. For ten years, beginning in 1660, Samuel Pepys secretly kept one of the most remarkable records ever made of a human life. With astounding candor and perceptiveness he described his ambitions and peculations, his professional successes and failures, his pettinesses and meannesses, his tenderness toward his wife and the irritations and jealousies she provoked, his extramarital longings and fumblings, his coolly critical attitude toward the king he served and his watchful adaptation to the corrupt and treacherous life of the court. Pepys’s diary is a magnificent creation. But there is more to Samuel Pepys than his diary, as Claire Tomalin makes clear in this profoundly original biography. Buttressing it with less familiar sources and other contemporary material, she is able to illuminate his entire life–as a poor London tailor’s son, as a schoolboy rejoicing at the execution of Charles I, as an aspiring clerk with good connections who transforms himself into a royalist, escorting Charles II to England for the Restoration. Then there
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Revelatory portrait of diarist Samuel Pepys's life.

Claire Tomalin's biography 'Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self' takes you beyond the famous diary to the man himself. Her research is impeccable, diving into lesser-known documents to paint a full picture of Pepys. She uncovers the drama of his life with the same narrative flair he used to detail 17th-century England. It's not just about his musings; it's a vivid window into the Restoration era, told through the life of a man as complex as the times he chronicled. If you're captivated by the rich tapestry of history and personal saga, this biography will resonate with you.

  • Whitbread Award for Biography and Book of the Year (2002)
  • Samuel Pepys Award (2003)
  • Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee (2003)
  • Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.