The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Author: Samuel Pepys
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Published: 1949
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Author: Samuel Pepys
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Published: 1949
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Published: 1923
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000-12-15
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 0520226992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSamuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the history of its period. In spite of its significance, all previous editions were inadequately edited and suffered from a number of omissions—until Robert Latham and William Matthews went back to the 300-year-old original manuscript and deciphered each passage and phrase, no matter how obscure or indiscreet. The Diary deals with some of the most dramatic events in English history. Pepys witnessed the London Fire, the Great Plague, the Restoration of Charles II, and the Dutch Wars. He was a patron of the arts, having himself composed many delightful songs and participated in the artistic life of London. His flair for gossip and detail reveals a portrait of the times that rivals the most swashbuckling and romantic historical novels. In none of the earlier versions was there a reliable, full text, with commentary and notation with any claim to completeness. This edition, first published in 1970, is the first in which the entire diary is printed with systematic comment. This is the only complete edition available; it is as close to Pepys’s original as possible.
Author: John Stow
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 478
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Francis Dow
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-08-09
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 0486157857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive, reliable account of 17th-century life in one of the country's earliest settlements. Contemporary records, over 100 historically valuable pictures vividly describe early dwellings, furnishings, medicinal aids, wardrobes, trade, crimes, more.
Author: Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel)
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 500
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aytoun Ellis
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 338
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the development of coffee-houses and their gradual evolution into the typical English institution, the club.
Author: John Wallace
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-01-31
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0300178166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first major book devoted to the trumpet in more than two decades, John Wallace and Alexander McGrattan trace the surprising evolution and colorful performance history of one of the world's oldest instruments. They chart the introduction of the trumpet and its family into art music, and its rise to prominence as a solo instrument, from the Baroque "golden age," through the advent of valved brass instruments in the nineteenth century, and the trumpet's renaissance in the jazz age. The authors offer abundant insights into the trumpet's repertoire, with detailed analyses of works by Haydn, Handel, and Bach, and fresh material on the importance of jazz and influential jazz trumpeters for the reemergence of the trumpet as a solo instrument in classical music today. Wallace and McGrattan draw on deep research, lifetimes of experience in performing and teaching the trumpet in its various forms, and numerous interviews to illuminate the trumpet's history, music, and players. Copiously illustrated with photographs, facsimiles, and music examples throughout, The Trumpet will enlighten and fascinate all performers and enthusiasts [Publisher description].
Author: Ronald J. Portman
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Published: 2014-01-15
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9781475761481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adam Fox
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2000-11-09
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 0191542296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the varied vernacular forms and rich oral traditions which were such a part of popular culture in early modern England. It focuses, in particular, upon dialect speech and proverbial wisdom, "old wives' tales" and children's lore, historical legends and local customs, scurrilous versifying and scandalous rumour-mongering. Adam Fox argues that while the spoken word provides the most vivid insight into the mental world of the majority in this semi-literate society, it was by no means untouched by written influences. Even at the beginning of the period, centuries of reciprocal infusion between complementary media had created a cultural repertoire which had long ceased to be purely oral. Thereafter, the expansion of literacy together with the proliferation of texts both in manuscript and print saw the rapid acceleration and elaboration of this process. By 1700 popular traditions and modes of expression were the product of a fundamentally literate environment to a much greater extent than has yet been appreciated.