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'The Latham-Matthews transcription of Pepys' Diary is one of the glories of contemporary English publishing.' The Times 'The pleasure of Pepys -- of reading him -- is his own pleasure in experience! Pepys' Diary is the cheerful self-report, not of the man eminent in naval history, not of the historical witness, but of the unobjectionable hedonist.' Guardian 'Here, in one of the finest feats in all the long history of scholarship, is Pepys' Diary, once and for all. Exegi monumentum aere perennius.' Observer 'The editors have achieved the impossible! one can now read the Diary perfectly easily, month by month, year by year! here at last is a really learned edition where the learning is put at the disposal of the layman.' New Statesman 'It isn't often that one encounters a publication -- especially of this magnitude -- which achieves complete perfection, but there is no doubt that this does.' Sir Arthur Bryant
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The first volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition. This complete edition of the Diary of Samuel Pepys comprises eleven volumes -- nine volumes of text and footnotes (with an introduction of 120 pages in Volume I), a tenth volume of commentary (The Companion) and an eleventh volume of Index. Each of the first eight volumes contains one whole calendar year of the diary, from January to December. The ninth volume runs from January 1668 to May 1669. The Diary was first published in abbreviated form in 1825. A succession of new editions, re-issues and selections, published in the Victorian era, made the Diary one of the best-known books, and Pepys one of the best-known figures, of English history. But in none of these versions -- not even in the Wheatley, which for long stood as the standard edition -- was there a reliable, still less a full text, and in none of them was there a commentary with any claim to completeness. This edition was in preparation for many years, and remains the first in which the entire Diary is printed and in which an attempt has been made at systematic comment on it. The primary aim of the principal editors was to see that the Diary was presented in a manner suitable to the historical and literary importance of its contents. At the same time they had in mind the interests of the wide public of English-speaking people to whom the diarist himself, rather than the importance of what he wrote, is what matters.
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Is this complete?,
By Morning Star (Heringas, Dunelmensis) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume I - 1660: 1660 v. 1 (Paperback)
My test for completeness. On page 196 of the look inside, instead of a reference to... excrement... in traditional Anglo Saxon four letter form, I find the October 20th 1660 entry contains an emptiness; a series of dashes; an 'ole. The t***ds can not be left out of the 17th century! It can't be done! I want my Pepys complete, in all its sticky brown glory. I am not buying this until someone can assure me that the seventeenth century has not been cleaned and sanitised and whitewashed. The seventeenth century did not contain clean, white gaps where words, or t***ds should lie!
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This review is from: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume I - 1660: 1660 v. 1 (Paperback)
There could never be a better translation and publication of Pepys' wonderful diary. Lanthem and Matthews have put a lot of time into translating this series. In the first book there is an introduction of several essays - a short biographical piece and information on the use the diary has for both literature and history, as well as a history of previous publications of the diary. These come in very useful and are also extremly interesting foreground reading before beginning the actual diary itself. The editors explain how they have translated the diaries and the difficulties and have tried to present the diary how Pepys' would have wanted it. They have tried to make it authentic as possible - only changing bits they absolutely have to and the reader is always informed of such changes. Pepys is an extremly important part of English history as he was witness to the restoration of the king after the death of Cromwell as well as the plague and the fire of London. His diary is wider then that - it is a record of humanity. It is unique in that it is very honest - a graphic detailed account on a man's life both public and private. Such history from a first hand account and not regergitated by modern day historians is invaluable for anyone interested in the history during this period.
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If you buy the 10 paperback versions of The Diary Of Samuel Pepys it will cost you approximately £120 (Jan 2012), whereas if you buy a Kindle for £89 and download the complete and unabridged Diary of Samuel Pepys from the Kindle Store for £1.30 you will save £30. Or you can do as I did and buy one paperback a month!I would also recommend Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self as a good background read before tackling the full diaries.
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