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Samuel Pepys

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Samuel Pepys

23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703

Samuel Pepys was born on February 23rd 1633 in Salisbury Court off Fleet Street. His father, John, was a tailor, his mother Margaret Kite was sister of a Whitechapel butcher and Samuel was fifth in a line of eleven children. His knowledge of shorthand, his political connections through Montagu (now Earl of Sandwich and First Lord of the Admiralty, having brought the King back from exile), and his subsequent government posts as one of the principal officers of the navy administration, gave him power and moderate wealth. His love of order and efficiency made him a man of some importance and he proudly and successfully addressed the Commons on naval matters. His [speech to the Commons on March 5th 1668][1] pleased him enormously. For us he is best known for his less than ten years of personal diaries, at once personal and historic, characterful and literary. ([Edited from pepys.info][2].) [1]: http://www.pepys.info/1668/1668.html#anchor6567384 [2]: http://www.pepys.info/pepbiog.html

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30 books

Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition cover

Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition

2002

Kate Kinsella, Kevin Feldman, Colleen Shea-Stump Ph.D., Joyce Armstrong Carroll, Edward E. Wilson, Joseph Addison, Anna Akhmatova, Yehuda Amichai, Matthew Arnold, W. H. Auden, Jane Austen, Joanna Baillie, Bashö, Charles Baudelaire, Bede, Bei Dao, James Berry, Tony Blair, William Blake, Eavan Boland, Robert Bolt, Jorge Luis Borges, James Boswell, Elizabeth Bowen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Brooke, Rupert, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Buson Yosa, Lord Byron, Tracy Chapman, Geoffrey Chaucer, Winston S. Churchill, Arthur C. Clarke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Confucius, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Anita Desai, Charles Dickens, John Donne, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth l, Queen of England, Anne Finch, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Nadine Gordimer, Thomas Gray, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Heinrich Heine, Robert Herrick, Όμηρος, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A. E. Housman, Ken Hughes, Ted Hughes, Kobayashi, Issa, Thomas Jefferson, Francis Jeffrey, Samuel Johnson, Ben Jonson, James Joyce, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Amelia Lanier, Philip Larkin, D. H. Lawrence, Doris Lessing, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Malory, Christopher Marlowe, Andrew Marvell, Catherine McGuinness, John Milton, Thomas More, Saki, V. S. Naipaul, Pablo Neruda, Sir Isaac Newton, George Orwell, Ovid, Wilfred Owen - undifferentiated, Margaret Paston, Samuel Pepys, Francesco Petrarca, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pope, Anna Quindlen, Walter Raleigh, Redgrove, Peter., Arthur Rimbaud, Sappho, Siegfried Sassoon, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir Philip Sidney, Alan Sillitoe, Stevie Smith, Sydney Smith, Sophocles, Muriel Spark, Stephen Spender, Edmund Spenser, Suckling, John Sir, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Emma Thompson, William Trevor, Tu Fu, Suzanne Vega, Derek Walcott, Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats

Prentice Hall Literature--The British Tradition cover

Prentice Hall Literature--The British Tradition

2000

Andrew W. Conrad, Joseph Addison, Matthew Arnold, W. H. Auden, Bede, James Berry, William Blake, Eavan Boland, Marie Borroff, James Boswell, Elizabeth Bowen, Brooke, Rupert, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, John Bunyan, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Geoffrey Chaucer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, John Donne, Margaret Drabble, John Dryden, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Nadine Gordimer, Robert Graves, Thomas Gray, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, William Hazlitt, Seamus Heaney, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A. E. Housman, Ted Hughes, Samuel Johnson, Ben Jonson, James Joyce, John Keats, Kennedy, Charles W., Rudyard Kipling, Philip Larkin, D. H. Lawrence, Doris Lessing, Richard Lovelace, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Malory, Katherine Mansfield, Christopher Marlowe, Andrew Marvell, George Meredith, John Milton, V. S. Naipaul, George Orwell, Wilfred Owen - undifferentiated, Samuel Pepys, Alexander Pope, Burton Raffel, Walter Raleigh, Henry Reed, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Siegfried Sassoon, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir Philip Sidney, Alan Stilltoe, Stevie Smith, Stephen Spender, Edmund Spenser, Sir Richard Steele, Suckling, John Sir, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, William Trevor, Derek Walcott, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats