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The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn

Af: Margaret Willes Engelsk Paperback

The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn

Af: Margaret Willes Engelsk Paperback
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An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times.   Pepys was earthy and shrewd, while Evelyn was a genteel aesthete, but both were drawn to intellectual pursuits. Brought together by their work to alleviate the plight of sailors caught up in the Dutch wars, they shared an inexhaustible curiosity for life and for the exotic. Willes explores their mutual interests—diary-keeping, science, travel, and a love of books—and their divergent enthusiasms, Pepys for theater and music, Evelyn for horticulture and garden design. Through the richly documented lives of two remarkable men, Willes revisits the history of London and of England in an age of regicide, revolution, fire, and plague to reveal it also as a time of enthralling possibility.
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An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times.   Pepys was earthy and shrewd, while Evelyn was a genteel aesthete, but both were drawn to intellectual pursuits. Brought together by their work to alleviate the plight of sailors caught up in the Dutch wars, they shared an inexhaustible curiosity for life and for the exotic. Willes explores their mutual interests—diary-keeping, science, travel, and a love of books—and their divergent enthusiasms, Pepys for theater and music, Evelyn for horticulture and garden design. Through the richly documented lives of two remarkable men, Willes revisits the history of London and of England in an age of regicide, revolution, fire, and plague to reveal it also as a time of enthralling possibility.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 304
ISBN-13: 9780300238686
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0300238681
Kategori: Biografier: skønlitterære forfattere
Udg. Dato: 28 aug 2018
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Yale University Press
Oplagsdato: 28 aug 2018
Forfatter(e): Margaret Willes
Forfatter(e) Margaret Willes

Kategori Biografier: skønlitterære forfattere

ISBN-13 9780300238686

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 304

Udgave

Længde 26mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 198mm

Udg. Dato 28 aug 2018

Oplagsdato 28 aug 2018

Forlag Yale University Press

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