The diary of Samuel Pepys
By: edited and with a preface by Richard Le Gallienne ; introduction by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Contributors: Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866-1947.
Edition: Modern Library ed.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703 -- Diaries.; Cabinet officers -- Great Britain -- Diaries.; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 17th century -- Sources.; Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Sources.
Genres: Diaries.; Sources.
Description: ""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."--Jacket.