The curious world of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn /

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"Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn vividly reveal in their diaries and correspondence the world of Restoration England. Now Margaret Willes uses the analogy of a cabinet of curiosities to provide a detailed account not only of the two friends but also of their times. Pepys was down to earth and real...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Willes, Margaret (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
Sujets:
Pepys, Samuel, > 1633-1703 > Friends and associates.
Evelyn, John, > 1620-1706 > Friends and associates.
Evelyn, John, > 1620-1706
Pepys, Samuel, > 1633-1703
1603-1714
Cabinet officers > Great Britain > Biography.
Diarists > Great Britain > Biography.
Ministres > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
HISTORY > Modern > 17th Century.
Cabinet officers
Courts and courtiers
Diarists
Friendship
Great Britain > History > Stuarts, 1603-1714 > Biography.
Great Britain > Court and courtiers > Biography.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1603-1714 (Stuarts) > Biographies.
Great Britain
Biography.
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: curiouser and curiouser
  • 'The world do not grow old at all'
  • Two worlds
  • The decade of the diaries
  • Prodigious revolutions
  • 'Even private families are ... the best of governments'
  • Private lives
  • 'I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure'
  • Take nobody's word for it
  • Pleasure above all things
  • Hortulan affairs
  • Exotic extravagances
  • The affection which we have to books
  • Epilogue: and so to bed
  • Appendix: the true domestick intelligence.

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