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Samuel pepys kept a diary in which he wrote with astonishing candour about the life he saw around him in london in the 1660s, and about his private desires and ambitions. Start a free 30day trial today and get your first audiobook free. Against the backdrop of plague, civil war, and regicide, with john milton composing diplomatic correspondence for oliver cromwell, christopher wren. We all know about samuel pepys witnessing the great fire in his diaries, but how many have read the definitive latham and matthews ninevolume edition, published between 1970 and 1983, complete with pepyss coded sections and his inconsistent and archaic spellings. Radio work includes the plays murder by the book and scenes from. 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. The diary of samuel pepys complete by samuel pepys. Samuel pepys has 601 books on goodreads with 173 ratings. Samuel pepys recorded his private thoughts in shorthand and occasionally code from 1660, months before the restoration of charles ii to 1669, when failing eyes rendered the effort impossible.
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