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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Pepys, Samuel; Le Gallienne, Richard; Stevenson, Robert Louis
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| Publisher: |
Modern Library
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| Date: |
9/9/2003
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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Richard Le Gallienne’s elegant abridgment of the
Diary captures the essential writings of Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), a remarkable man who witnessed the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666. Originally scribbled in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys’s quotidian journal of life in Restoration London provides an astonishingly frank and diverting account of political intrigues; naval, church, and cultural affairs; and the sexual escapades and domestic strife of a man with a voracious, childlike appetite for living. “As a human document the
Diary is literally unique,” notes Le Gallienne. “It will have a still greater value for its historical importance.”
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