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The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume I: 1660 - 1663

By: Samuel Pepys
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, David Timson
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most entertaining documents in English history. Written between 1660 and 1669, as Pepys was establishing himself as a key administrator in the naval office, it is an intimate portrait of life in 17th-century England covering his professional and personal activities, including, famously, his love of music, theatre, food, wine and his peccadilloes. This Naxos AudioBooks production is the world premiere recording of the diary in its entirety; the result of many years of scholarship by Robert Latham (Magdalene College, Cambridge) and William Matthews (University of California). It has been divided into three volumes. Volume I covers the opening years of the Restoration and introduces us to many of the key characters - family, government and royalty. Pepys was there when Charles II returned to England, and he lived through those opening years of the Stuart monarchy, with its revenge on the regicides. He also recorded the reopening of theatres, and how he relaxed from the Puritan way of life.

©1983 Robert Latham (Magdalene College, Cambridge) and William Matthews (University of California) (P)2014 Naxos AudioBooks Classics England Royalty Theatre
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I liked the honesty of Samuel Pepys who wrote a detailed daily journal, recording the business he undertook for the Admiralty and his personal hopes and fears for his career and fortune in service of the King. He records intimate details which are affecting his relationships with his family and servants,his clothing, food, transport, entertainment, study, religion and his health and conscience. So he becomes very well-known and it is easy to imagine life of the well-to-do in London between 1660 and 1663.
What an amusing way to learn history listening to such a pleasant voice.

17th century life

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very interesting to listen to a voice of the past. Highly recommend to anyone who loves history.

How life has chaned

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Excellent narration makes one feels it’s Pepys himself talking to us. A wonderful window into the seventeenth century.

Excellent narration brings the Diary alive.

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david timson captures the cadences and meanings just perfectly, as if Pepys himself speaking

superb reader

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What shocked me was how we still act like this today sharing many similarities

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