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"The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents. ""To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century,"" Adrian Tinniswood writes in this brilliant book. The Verney family's centuries-long practice of saving every piece of paper that came into their possession -- amassing some 100,000 pages of family and estate letters and documents -- resulted in the largest and most complete private collection of seventeenth-century correspondence in the Western world to date. They paint an incredibly accurate and detailed picture of life in England, Europe, and even the American colonies, through the everyday lives of one extraordinary family."

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"?This is surely the way history really works, colliding into our quotidian lives and then ricocheting away again.? ?""The New York Times"" ?[A] wonderfully engaging biography...Tinniswood has brought the Verneys to life in robustly vivid style.? ?""Guardian"" ?A wonderful family saga...a model for how biography and social history...can be made to work magnificently together.? ?""The Economist"" ?More real-life melodramas than a Restoration tragedy.? ?""Kirkus Reviews"" ?A compelling drama of marriage, death, madness, adventure and travel...[a] very engaging book.? ?""Sunday Times (UK)"" aThis is surely the way history really works, colliding into our quotidian lives and then ricocheting away again.a a""The New York Times"" a[A] wonderfully engaging biography...Tinniswood has brought the Verneys to life in robustly vivid style.a a""Guardian"" aA wonderful family saga...a model for how biography and social history...can be made to work magnificently together.a a""The Economist"" aMore real-life melodramas than a Restoration tragedy.a a""Kirkus Reviews"" aA compelling drama of marriage, death, madness, adventure and travel...[a] very engaging book.a a""Sunday Times (UK)"""

aThis is surely the way history really works, colliding into our quotidian lives and then ricocheting away again.a <br>a The New York Times <br> a[A] wonderfully engaging biography...Tinniswood has brought the Verneys to life in robustly vivid style.a <br>a Guardian <br> aA wonderful family saga...a model for how biography and social history...can be made to work magnificently together.a <br>a The Economist <br> aMore real-life melodramas than a Restoration tragedy.a <br>a Kirkus Reviews <br> aA compelling drama of marriage, death, madness, adventure and travel...[a] very engaging book.a<br> a Sunday Times (UK)

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Adrian Tinniswood is the author of His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren and Visions of Power: Ambition and Architecture from Ancient Times to the Present. He is a respected author, lecturer, and broadcaster in Britain and the United States.

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