THE JOURNAL OF MRS. PEPYS: Portrait of a Marriage

31st December 1659 I have resolved to keep a journal, and it will be private. I shall keep it hidden, and it will be mine alone and I shall say whatever I like. So that on days and nights like this it will be company of a sort.... So begins the journal of Elizabeth Pepys, wife of the celebrated diarist Samuel. Theirs is a love match, marred only by their failure to have a child and their struggle for advancement from a state of poverty. But Sam's star is rising and their prosperity increases, only for their relationship almost to founder because of his infidelities.... This is a story of a passionate, if pain-fraught marriage, of a gloriously rich and robust period in our history and a woman's passage through the defining years of her life in which her search to draw significance from her existence is punctuated by the everyday urgencies of living. At times jauntily acerbic, at others movingly elegiac, this is a portrait of a tumultuous relationship and era that, in its sharp-edged concerns and emotions, is utterly compelling.

The Journal of Mrs. Pepys: Portrait of a Marriage

Literature & Fiction

George, Sara.

Contemporary

St. Martin's: Griffin

Stated First American edition bound in blue cloth and purple boards. A VG+ copy in a VG+ dust jacket. Slight spine lean. Former owner's name stamp on the front endpaper. The dust jacket's inner flaps have creases.

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Atheneum

Physical description; 340p. ; 19 cm. Subject; Pepys, Elizabeth 1640-1669 - Diaries - Fiction.

The Journal Of Mrs. Pepys - Portrait Of A Marriage

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The fictional journal of Elizabeth Pepys, wife of the diarist, Samuel. Their marriage, which was due to love, was marred only by their failure to have a child and their struggle to advance from poverty. Samuel begins to become successful, but their marriage nearly founders due to his infidelities.

The Journal of Mrs.Pepys : Portrait of a Marriage

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Despite beginning to go blind at age fifteen, François Huber finds himself increasingly fascinated with science, forcing him to enlist a young servant as his assistant in his obsessive exploration of the world of the bee. Reprint.

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Headline Book Pub Ltd

In 1766, at the age of 15, Francois Huber learns that he is going blind. As the darkness descends, he sets his mind on an extraordinary scientific inquiry into the violent and sexually competitive world of the bee. He teaches his manservant to observe in his place and together they document their astonishing findings, with extraordinary obsessiveness and insight. Set against a backdrop of the scientific and intellectual idealism of the Enlightenment, Sara George's fascinating new novel is a story of passion, knowledge, and human limitations.

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Headline Book Publishing

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