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The Diary of Samuel Pepys - Volume III - 1662 (Paperback, Reissue)
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys - Volume III - 1662 (Paperback, Reissue)
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List price R348
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Discovery Miles 3 190
You Save R29 (8%)
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The third volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most
authoritative and acclaimed edition. This complete edition of the
Diary of Samuel Pepys comprises eleven volumes -- nine volumes of
text and footnotes (with an introduction of 120 pages in Volume I),
a tenth volume of commentary (The Companion) and an eleventh volume
of Index. Each of the first eight volumes contains one whole
calendar year of the diary, from January to December. The ninth
volume runs from January 1668 to May 1669. The Diary was first
published in abbreviated form in 1825. A succession of new
editions, re-issues and selections, published in the Victorian era,
made the Diary one of the best-known books, and Pepys one of the
best-known figures, of English history. But in none of these
versions -- not even in the Wheatley, which for long stood as the
standard edition -- was there a reliable, still less a full text,
and in none of them was there a commentary with any claim to
completeness. This edition was in preparation for many years, and
remains the first in which the entire Diary is printed and in which
an attempt has been made at systematic comment on it. The primary
aim of the principal editors was to see that the Diary was
presented in a manner suitable to the historical and literary
importance of its contents. At the same time they had in mind the
interests of the wide public of English-speaking people to whom the
diarist himself, rather than the importance of what he wrote, is
what matters.
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