Diary of Samuel Pepys (Hardcover)

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The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events – the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague, 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. Unequalled for its frankness, high spirits and sharp observations, the diary is both a literary masterpiece and a marvellous portrait of seventeenth-century life.