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Evelyn's social life, his contacts with public figures, his accounts of the Royal Society, his personal reflections, his comments on current events... his playgoing (of Hamlet he writes `but now the old playe began to disgust this refined age') - all these are here in full. For those who go to Evelyn for his literary qualities and his picture of his life and times, this is a well made selection, excellently presented. (Austin Woolrych) HISTORY The diary's record of Evelyn's own life and that of his family, and the entries giving his comments on current events and on the great and good of his day...are what most readers are likely to value in the diary, and this readable volume should therefore serve its purpose well. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
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Introduced by Sir Roy Strong. The Everyman edition of John Evelyn's Diary is published to coincide with the tercentenary of Evelyn's death in 1706. There is no other edition currently in print.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The introduction to this book warned me - it is not as immediately readable as Pepys, with less personal material or description of the diarist's feelings. But given that this diary was written for all to see, as opposed to Pepys' who encoded his diary, this is understandable. What Evelyn's diary does wellis fill in a lot about the viewpoints and detailed history of the Seventeenth century in England. It has a comprehensive time-line at the front, and a useful mini-bio of the main characters at the end.
36 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
At the time I am writing this I have this particular copy of the diary in my possesion at my side, and what can I say about it? just fantastic, a remarkable portait of life under King Charles I, Charles II, James II, William III and Mary II and Queen Anne
in all five monarchs that represented a turning point in English History, a break away from the old secular medieval order and into the age of oppulence and full steam towards the industrial revolution and Empire, Evelyn unlike Pepys lets us in on so much of the 17th Century, whereas pepys diary only lets us in on just
10 years (though it should not be forgotten 10 important ones, but it is not his diary i am reviewing)Outside of the absolute full diary this is perhaps
the fullest and covers two volumes and 832 pages, something is lost in any selection but to concentrate on that thought is to miss the the beauty and vigour of this wonderfull book, buy it now it is worth more than any other 17th Century history book.
in all five monarchs that represented a turning point in English History, a break away from the old secular medieval order and into the age of oppulence and full steam towards the industrial revolution and Empire, Evelyn unlike Pepys lets us in on so much of the 17th Century, whereas pepys diary only lets us in on just
10 years (though it should not be forgotten 10 important ones, but it is not his diary i am reviewing)Outside of the absolute full diary this is perhaps
the fullest and covers two volumes and 832 pages, something is lost in any selection but to concentrate on that thought is to miss the the beauty and vigour of this wonderfull book, buy it now it is worth more than any other 17th Century history book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I gave this book to my husband to go with another book about John Evelyn's trees, and have found it of great interest to dip into myself. It gives such an immediate insight into a period both of great change and instability (the 2nd half of the 17th century) but also of exciting scientific and geographical discoveries.
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