num_pages: 576
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.
language: French
title: Journal de Samuel Pepys
titlecomplete: Journal de Samuel Pepys
genres: Biography, British Literature, 17th Century, Memoir, Nonfiction, Classics, Diary, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 3109
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Mercure de France