Ebook: The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Author: Gallienne Richard Le, Samuel Pepys
- Tags: Authors English--Early modern, Authors English--Early modern 1500-1700, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical, HISTORY--Europe--Great Britain, Manners and customs, Statesmen, Statesmen--Great Britain, History, Sources, Electronic books, Biographies, Biography, Pepys Samuel -- 1633-1703, Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Biography, Authors English -- Early modern 1500-1700 -- Biography, Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts 1603-1714 -- Sources, Great Britain -- Social life and customs, Great Britain -- Social
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- City: New York;Great Britain
- Edition: Modern Library pbk. ed
- Language: English
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The diary which Samuel Pepys kept from January 1660 to May 1669 ... is one of our greatest historical records and ... a major work of English literature," writes the renowned historian Paul Johnson. A witness to the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666, Pepys chronicled the events of his day. Originally written in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys's diary provides an astonishingly frank and diverting account of political intrigues and naval, church, and cultural affairs, as well as a quotidian journal of daily life in London during the Restoration.