Hitchhiking with Larry David: An Accidental Tourist's Summer of Self-Discovery in Martha's Vineyard 9781101621738

"Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn vividly reveal in their diaries and correspondence the world of Restoration England.

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Hitchhiking with Larry David: An Accidental Tourist's Summer of Self-Discovery in Martha's Vineyard
 9781101621738

Table of contents :
Introduction: curiouser and curiouser --
'The world do not grow old at all' --
Two worlds --
The decade of the diaries --
Prodigious revolutions --
'Even private families are ... the best of governments' --
Private lives --
'I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure' --
Take nobody's word for it --
Pleasure above all things --
Hortulan affairs --
Exotic extravagances --
The affection which we have to books --
Epilogue: and so to bed --
Appendix: the true domestick intelligence.

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