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 Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Tomalin, Claire |
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Brief Description A full-scale biography of naval administrator Samuel Pepys, who was well-known for being the friend of the famous and powerful. This text, which draws on Pepys' own personal diary, covers his childhood and young adulthood. It goes beyond the source material to explore the inner man. |
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Prizes Won By This Title (See the awards link at the top of the page for other prize winners) Winner of Whitbread Prize (Biography) 2002 and Whitbread Book of the Year Award Biography Category 2002 and Samuel Pepys Award 2003 and Whitbread Book of the Year 2002. Shortlisted for BBC Four Samuel |
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Author Information Claire Tomalin has worked in publishing and journalism all her life, becoming literary editor of the New Statesman and then of the Sunday Times. She is the author of six highly acclaimed biographies and has won the Whitbread First Book Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography. |
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Author Profile Claire Tomalin has worked in publishing and journalism most of her life. She was literary editor first of the New Statesman and then the Sunday Times, which she left in 1986. She is the author of seven highly acclaimed biographies: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, which won the Whitbread First Book Prize; Shelley and His World; Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life; The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, which won the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography; Mrs Jordan's Profession; Jane Austen: A Life; and, in 2002, Pepys: The Unequalled Self, winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year. She has also published a collection of her literary journalism entitled Several Strangers: Writings from Three Decades. |
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Synopsis A full-scale biography of naval administrator Samuel Pepys, who was well-known for being the friend of the famous and powerful. This text, which draws on Pepys' own personal diary, covers his childhood and young adulthood. It moves through the famous diary years and beyond, to the death of his wife and the setting up of a new household. While using the diary as a source, the author goes beyond its narrative to the inner man, at the same time revealing life as a young man in Restoration London. Explored within are Pepys' relations with women, his fears and ambitions, his political shifts and his agonies and delights. |
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Table of Contents Part 1 1633-1660: the elected son; a schoolboy's war Huntingdon and St Paul's; Cambridge and clerking; love and pain; a house in Axe Yard; a diary. Part 2 1660-1669: changing sides; families; work; jealousy; death and plague; war; marriage; the king; the fire; three Janes; the secret scientist; speeches and stories; surprise and disorder. Part 3 1669-1703: after the diary; public and private life; plots; travels for the Stuarts; whirligigs; the Jacobite; a journey to be made. |
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