The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

are used to designate Pounds, Shillings, and Pence. Notes: Where sums of money are referred to, £, s. Thanks to Sarah Bruce for providing these excerpts.

Some university students created a 3-minute virtual tour of what London might have looked like before the Great Fire. The complete diaries are online complete or abridged or ' concise.' There's an online project where participants are adding annotations to the diary.

During those pages you will encounter something that will make you laugh, shake your head at the seemingly helpless antics of the man, or toss the book across the room in disgust.Home > Resources > Book Helps > Diary of Samuel Pepys (excerpts) Diary of Samuel Pepys (excerpts) This is a book worth keeping by your bedside for reading five or six pages at a time. His notion of honest public service is that he never accepts a bribe before he performs the service of diverting public contracts toward those who will reliably pay in gold for the favor.īut on the other hand it was someone of a hard slog to get through even this 290 page selection from Pepys' 1000 page long private diary covering the ten years before his eyesight became too poor to continue. Then too, none of the political grifters we observe in the present day have anything on Pepys in their view that public service is all about private profit. The man rarely encountered a servant class bosom he was reluctant to fondle, nor a comely maiden, married woman or lady of the evening he was reluctant to pursue, even stalk. If Bill Clinton or Harvey Weinstein had kept a diary much of it would read just like that of Pepys. Part of me wants to give it five stars for timeliness and perspective on the present day, given the recent revelations of men behaving badly. His wife died in 1669, six months after the last diary entry. Samuel Pepys was born in 1633 and died in 1703. Samuel Pepys diary was first published in 1825. Pepys stopped writing diary notes due to having eyesight problems. Pepys went on to amass a fortune, but had no children of his own to leave his wealth to. Pepys had many affairs and writes about his dalliances with a variety of women. Pepys was a naval administrator, married to Elisabeth for fourteen years. Interesting from an historical perspective but note that there is not much plot momentum. He also comments on plays he saw, women he admired, his famously received four hour speech in Parliament, his fights and arguments with his wife and his expenses and savings. The diary notes cover his experiences during the Great Plague of London, the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London in 1666. An interesting historical record written by Samuel Pepys, from 1660 to 1669, when Pepys was between 26 and 36 years of age.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys