here at last is a really learned edtiion where the learning is put at the disposal of the layman. one can now read the Diary perfectly easily, month by month, year by year. Observer The editors have achieved the impossible. Guardian Here, in one of the finest feats in all the long history of scholarship, is Pepys Diary, once and for all. Pepys diary is the cheerful self-report, not of the man eminent in naval history, not of the historical witness, but of the unobjectionable hedonist. The Times The pleasure of Pepys - of reading him - is his own pleasure in experience. Review Quotes The Latham-Matthews transcription of Pepys Diary is one of the glories of contemporary English publishing. At the same time they had in mind the interests of the wide public of English-speaking people to whom the diarist himself, rather than the importance of what he wrote, is what matters. The primary aim of the principal editors was to see that the diary was presented in a manner suitable to the historical and literary importance of its contents. This edition was in preparation for many years, and remains the first in which the entire diary is printed and in which an attempt has been made at systematic comment on it. But in none of these versions - not even in the Wheatley, which for long stood as the standard edition - was there a reliable, still less a full text, and in none of them was there a commentary with any claim to completeness. A succession of new editions, re-issues and selections, published in the Victorian ear, made the diary one of the best-known books, and Pepys one of the best-known figures, of English history.
The Diary was first published in abbreviated form in 1825. The ninth volume runs from January 1668 to May 1669. Each of the first eight volumes contains one whole calendar year of the diary, from January to December.
This complete edition of the Diary of Samuel Pepys comprises eleven volumes - nine volumes of text and footnotes (with an introduction of 120 pages in Volume I), a tenth volume of commentary (The Companion) and an eleventh volume of Index.
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