num_pages: 1096
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Diary of Samuel Pepys
titlecomplete: The Diary of Samuel Pepys
genres: History, Classics, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, 17th Century, Biography Memoir, Diary, Nonfiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 3109
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Penguin Books