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The diary of John Evelyn (Volume III)

The diary of John Evelyn (Volume III)

Evelyn, John

Paperback

Literary FiguresGeographyBritish History

ISBN10: 9389265169
ISBN13: 9789389265163
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 28 2019
Pages: 518
Weight: 1.43
Height: 1.15 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Step into Restoration London with John Evelyn at your side. History, written day by day. Evelyn writes with a gentleman's precision and a moralist's curiosity. Volume III of The Diary of John Evelyn continues one of the great seventeenth century journals: a historical diary primary source from a court-connected scholar, traveller, and observer of public life. In this unabridged diary collection you meet Stuart era England at street level and in council chambers alike, where restoration england politics, church debate, science, and manners collide. Evelyn notices what official records miss: the texture of early modern daily life, the rhythms of london social history, and the shifting tone of restoration era london as the nation remakes itself. Alongside public matters, he attends to art, gardens, books, and civility - the human scale behind events. For samuel pepys diary readers, Evelyn offers a complementary lens: less theatrical, more deliberative, and always alert to institutions. His pages illuminate royal society early history and the intellectual networks that helped shape modern Britain, making this volume equally satisfying for immersion reading and for use as a british history reference on any serious history shelf. Scholars will value it as an academic research edition that preserves Evelyn's voice and sequence, while general readers and classic-literature collectors will enjoy its immediacy and range. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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