Bibliograph

The diary of Samuel Pepys, edited and with a preface by Richard le Galliene

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The diary of Samuel Pepys, edited and with a preface by Richard le Galliene

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The diary of Samuel Pepys

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

526812528

Responsibility statement

edited and with a preface by Richard le Galliene

Review

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

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