Seller: Revaluation Books (Exeter, United Kingdom) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Hardcover. Urn:lcp:samuelpepysunequ00toma:epub:fcba3374-ddba-47cd-b9a5-23b5813cfdfd Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier samuelpepysunequ00toma Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9t15m67g Isbn 0140282343ĩ780140282344 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary_edition A former literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times, she is married to the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:00:41 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA107417 Boxid_2 CH131406 Camera Canon 5D City London.

A vivid chronicle of contemporary history seen through the all too human preoccupations of this ordinary and extraordinary man' Diana Souhami, Independentįrom the acclaimed author of Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman, this celebrated biography casts new light on the remarkable diaries of Pepys and brings his story vividly to life once more.Ĭlaire Tomalin is the award-winning author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and His World Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens Mrs Jordan's Profession Jane Austen: A Life Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man and, most recently, Charles Dickens: A Life. 'A great achievement and a huge pleasure. Her perceptive, level-headed book finally restores to the life of the diarist its weight and dignity' Lisa Jardine, New Statesman 'In Claire Tomalin, Pepys has found the biographer he deserves. It takes us behind and beyond the diary - which means that, on finishing it, we can reread the diary with greater pleasure and understanding then ever before' Noel Malcolm, Evening Standard /rebates/2fSamuel-Pepys-The-Unequalled-Self-Claire-Tomalin2fbook2f7446433&. 'A rich, thoughtful and deeply satisfying account. Admittedly, as far as getting beneath her subjects skin, Ms.

Fast, vivid, accessible' Hermione Lee, Guardian In 'Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self' the biographer, Claire Tomalin, has managed to achieve this balance. 'Sex, drink, plague, fire, music, marital conflict, the fall of kings, corruption and courage in public life, wars, navies, public execution, incarceration in the Tower: Samuel Pepys's life is full of irresistible material, and Claire Tomalin seizes it with both hands. Tomalin has managed to unearth a wealth of material about the uncharted life of Samuel Pepys' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

Samuel Pepys is the astonishing biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin

Samuel pepys the unequalled self