Tomalin gives us the rest of the man, and also a startling new way to read him. And it is a love that becomes contagious.' -Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday (U.K.), 'The Pepys we know lived for only nine years and five months. Wellington 021 Would have preferred it as a mid-winter book as it was difficult to read in short bursts. Like all great biographies, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self has a hint of the love letter about it. Some features have failed to load due to an. Stratford 001 Overdose of facts but great history lesson.Lively discussion. Product details page for Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin is loaded. Auckland 199 Those who tackled it found it a most interesting, challenging read. Raumati 001 Everyone loved the book and we talked for hours. Tomalin's writing made the book come alive. Samuel Pepys (16331703) is the most famous diarist in English letters.

Gave an amazing insight into life of the times and a close up look at Pepys. SAMUEL PEPYS: The Unequalled Self Claire Tomalin. Winner of Whitbread Book Award (Biography). A full-scale biography of naval administrator Samuel Pepys, who was well-known for. Tomalin focuses on Pepys' life and times, including plague, fire, war, peace, domesticity, ill-health and extended family - all coloured by Pepys' own words as expressed in his journals.

This is a highly readable popular biog raphynot meant to compete with scholarly books that try to docu ment the career of. 30, 16.95 pb ) Claire Tomalin has written her new biography of the diarist Samuel Pepys con amore. It is, after all, difficult to condemn a man who watches the royal pooch ''s- in the boat, which made us all laugh and me think that a King and all that belong to him are but just as others are.A meticulous biography, capturing the life of Samuel Pepys, the most famous diarist in English letters. PEPYS OUR CONTEMPORARY I Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin (Knopf, 2002. Yet Tomalin never falters in her appreciation of this unpretentious genius. Tracing his career - from humble bureaucrat to an influential architect of the modern Royal Navy - Tomalin presents a fascinating portrait of an individual equal parts yuppie (shallow and materialistic), company man (a capable administrator), and skirt-chasing scamp. Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self is full biography - a biography that uses a six volume diary (that covers a 10 year period of his life) as a primary source. ''It was an unpromising moment to embark on a record of his daily activities,'' wryly observes Claire Tomalin in her brilliant new biography, 'Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self,' of the man whose diaries are now regarded as perhaps the most famous in English letters. (Entertainment Weekly) - On a December day in 1659, Samuel Pepys, a low-level civil servant in Restoration England, purchased a plain 282-page notebook in which he planned to keep a journal. Samuel Pepys : the unequalled self by Tomalin, Claire.

Samuel pepys the unequalled self