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Title: Pepys' Diary by Samuel Pepys, Kenneth Branagh ISBN: 1-56511-134-6 Publisher: HighBridge Company Pub. Date: February, 1996 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 6 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Listen -- Read the Bio -- and Listen Again
Comment: 2003 -- the 300th anniversary of Pepys death -- accidentally turned into the year of Pepys for me after I bought this audiobook.
I fell in love with the diaries (read so well by Branagh), but was frustrated by my lack of knowledge about Restoration London. So, I read some history books, and eventually found the bio by Claire Tomalin (Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self). Tomalin has written a very clear biography that manages to give enough of the historical context without slowing down the personal narrative.
Better educated, I then listened to the audiobook diary again and enjoyed it even more than the first-time around!
I highly recommend both the audiobook and the Tomalin biography to anyone interested in becoming acquainted with a man who is fascinating and charming and frequently amoral, but remarkably honest! 1660 London doesn't seem so long ago or so foreign to me anymore!
Thank you Kenneth, and thank you Claire!
Rating: 4
Summary: brilliant but short
Comment: The actual diary is huge, a very long read, so it's impractical to have the whole thing read by someone for a taped version. Understandable. Kenneth Branagh is a brilliant choice for reading the diary, though it was hard for me to believe it might have been the authentic voice of Pepys. And I know, that isn't the point - just something that crosses my mind when I listen. But the excerpts they choose to have read is great, keeps things moving forward, and soon you'll find yourself absolutely addicted. Listening to Pepys' personal life, London's public life, the political intrigues, the gossip-ish flavor of the sexual escapades - all of it is the next best thing to a time machine. Wanna travel back three hundred years in time for a few hours? Then listen to this tape. I just wish it had been longer...
Rating: 5
Summary: terrific
Comment: This is the perfect accompaniment to Claire Tomalin's equally terrific new biography, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self.
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Title: Samuel Pepys : The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin ISBN: 0375725539 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Richard Le Gallienne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samuel Pepys ISBN: 0679642218 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: In the Ravine: And Other Short Stories by Kenneth Branagh, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ISBN: 9626342617 Publisher: Naxos Audio Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.98 |
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Title: Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004 by Robert A. McCaughey ISBN: 0231130082 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title:Nicholas Nickleby ASIN: B00009MEJ4 Publisher: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pub. Date: 22 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.46 |
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