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The Concise Pepys by Samuel Pepys

ISBN: 9781853264788 PUBLISHER: Wordsworth Editions Ltd FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 816 PUBLICATION DATE: 7.05.1996 DIMENSIONS: 198mmX129mmX41mm 490grams

DESCRIPTION: Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began his diary on 1 Jan 1660, immediately prior to the Restoration of Charles II to the throne and the subsequent loosening of the rigid and social code enforced during the Puritan Commonwealth. As variously, Clerk to the Council, a Member of Parliament, a prisoner in the Tower of London, twice Secretary to the Admiralty and President of the Royal Society, Pepys was in a unique position to observe and record the details of a ten-year period of English history which included not only the Restoration, but the Great Plague of 1665 and the Fire of London of the following year. However, it was not only for affairs of state which took up the great diarist's interest, for he was a regular attendant at the King's Theatre, was a hearty eater and drinker and delighted in recording his fondness of women, especially his own and his friends' young servant girls.

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