The detailed private diary of Samuel Pepys, kept from 1660 until 1669, remains one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. His writings provide a vivid and fascinating combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of important events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London. This comprehensive eBook presents Pepys’ complete diary, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Pepys’ life and diary * Concise introductions to several sections of the diary and other texts * The complete diary, with individual contents tables and Henry B. Wheatley’s guiding notes * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the sections of the diary you want to read * Includes Pepys’ contemporary John Evelyn’s complete diary, providing an invaluable resource tool for the study of Pepys and his times * Special criticism section, with six essays evaluating Pepys’ contribution to literature * Features a bonus biography - discover Pepys’ life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Diary BRIEF INTRODUCTION OF THE DIARY DIARY ENTRIES: 1660-1661 DIARY ENTRIES: 1662-1663 DIARY ENTRIES: 1664-1665 DIARY ENTRIES: 1666-1667 DIARY ENTRIES: 1668-1669 The Diaries of John Evelyn INTRODUCTION TO JOHN EVELYN AND HIS DIARY The Criticism SAMUEL PEPYS by Robert Louis Stevenson SAMUEL PEPYS AND THE ROYAL NAVY by J. R. Tanner MR. PEPYS by Robert Lynd MASTER SAMUEL PEPYS by Andrew Lang PEPYS AND SHAKESPEARE by Sir Sidney Lee PEPYS’ DIARY by John Kelman The Biography SAMUEL PEPYS by Leslie Stephen Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

The correspondence included here represents the first selection of Pepys's letters drawn from all possible sources to be published since 1933. Since the Diary does not cover this period, the letters enable the reader to follow Pepys' early career on the staff of the Earl of Sandwich, his rise to greatness as Secretary of the Admiralty, and his retirement after the Glorious Revolution. Along the way Pepys fought battles with opponents of his naval reforms and enemies who tried to implicate him in the Popish Plot, while taking care of his various relatives and keeping up with an array of friends and acquaintances who included many of the great and famous of late-seventeenth-century England. The letters have been chosen to reflect all these aspects of Pepys's varied and fascinating life, and include 30 never before published. They are accompanied by a running commentary, biographies of persons mentioned, a glossary, a chronology, and an introduction that explains how the letters have survived and analyses how they were written.BR>Guy de la Bédoyère is a historian and archaeologist with numerous books to his credit. His specialist field is Roman Britain but he has published three books for Boydell on the 'other' seventeenth-century diarist, John Evelyn (1620-1706), including the widely-acclaimed Particular Friends: The Correspondence of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn which features all the letters exchanged by the two men over a period of 38 years.

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