In 1650, he went to Magdalene College at Cambridge University, where he received his bachelor's degree.
The English Civil War was well under way, and he witnessed the beheading of Charles I. Pepys's one family asset was his father's first cousin, Edward Montagu, the first Earl of Sandwich, who would grow to become his close friend and patron. His mother was the sister of a butcher and his father was a poor tailor, barely able to collect money for his services. Pepys grew up in a household of humble means. One of eleven children, he ended up becoming the eldest of only three who survived to adulthood. Samuel Pepys was born in London, England on February 23, 1633. This entry studies the abridged, one-volume Modern Library edition, released in 2001, which is widely available. It has since been revised and enlarged to six volumes, ten volumes, and finally, eleven volumes-the complete diary. The first edition was edited by Lord Braybrooke and released in an abridged form in 1825 in two volumes. It wasn't rediscovered until 1819, more than one hundred fifty years later, at which point the Master of the College had a student decipher Pepys's codes. Fearing that he was going blind from writing, Pepys stopped recording entries in his diary in 1669 and had his entire diary bound for his personal library, which he left to Magdalene College, Cambridge University-his alma mater. He wrote The Diary of Samuel Pepys in a cryptic code, which was his own variation on an existing form of shorthand. Pepys did his part to make sure that prying eyes could not read his work during his lifetime. This coverage gives The Diary of Samuel Pepys a historic distinction as well as a literary one. Throughout the work, which spans from 1660 to 1669, Pepys offers his firsthand perspective on the major events during the Restoration, including his own role in helping to bring Charles II back from exile to become king, and his aid in both the Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666. This freed him up to paint a frank, uncensored portrait of life in London at the time of the Restoration. Unlike other diarists of his time, Pepys had no aspirations for publication. This catalog page is provided by The Online Books Page, and the literature by Project Gutenberg.The Diary of Samuel Pepys has been called a literary work like no other. Minho : Universidade do Minho (Portugal).
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