num_pages: 57
description: ‘With one’s face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops . . .’ A selection from Pepys’s startlingly vivid and candid diary. Originally written in code, Pepys’s diary includes his unforgettable eyewitness account of the 1666 Fire.[ Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) ]Little Black Classics celebrates Penguin’s 80th birthday, introducing 80 works from the classics.
language: English
title: The Great Fire of London
titlecomplete: The Great Fire of London
genres: Biography, Essays, Classics, History, British Literature, Historical, Nonfiction, 17th Century, Short Stories, Memoir
ratings_count: 715
publisher: Phoenix 60p Paperbacks