[Gutenberg 3331] • The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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- Authors
- Pepys, Samuel
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Tags
- samuel , great britain -- social life and customs -- 17th century -- sources , history , great britain -- history -- charles ii , classics , diarists -- great britain -- diaries , biography , cabinet officers -- great britain -- diaries , 1633-1703 -- diaries , pepys , 1660-1685 -- sources
- ISBN
- 9780141439938
- Date
- 1669-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.78 MB
- Lang
- en
The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events -- the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague and the Fire of London -- Pepys provides a definitive eyewitness account. As well as recording public and historical events, Pepys paints a vivid picture of his personal life, from his socializing and amorous entanglements, to his theatre-going and his work at the Navy Board. Unequaled for its frankness, high spirits and sharp observations, the diary is both a literary masterpiece and a marvelous portrait of seventeenth-century life.
Previously published as *The Shorter Pepys* , this edition is edited and abridged by Robert Latham, Fellow and Pepys Librarian at Magdalene College, Cambridge.