Pepys: A Biography

Pepys: A Biography

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Synopsis

This biography of Samuel Pepys, the most famous diarist of all time, provides the key to the contrasts and contradictions of Pepys' character and draws together the threads running through his life to reveal the man behind the famous diary. Pepys was a boy during the Civil War and a student during the Protectorate. He witnessed the Restoration, the Dutch Wars, the Plague, the Fire of London and the Glorious Revolution. As a result, his diary of life has continued to be one of the most important historical documents.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 04 Aug 2000

ISBN 10: 0749003928
ISBN 13: 9780749003920
Book Overview: Author was a joint winner of the 1998 Heyward Hill Literary Prize

Media Reviews
'A remarkable biography beautifully structured, scholarly and written in elegant and vivid prose.A biography which, on first reading, one devours in a state of high excitement, unable to put it down, and then returns to again and again.' P D James