The Diary of Samuel Pepys

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Published Oct. 15, 2019 by Blackstone Pub, Naxos.

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978-1-0940-1060-1
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Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament.

The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London. Pepys recorded his daily life for almost ten years. Pepys has been called the greatest diarist of all time due to his frankness in writing concerning his own weaknesses and the accuracy with which he records events of daily British life and major events in the 17th century. Pepys wrote about the contemporary court and theater, his household, and major political and social occurrences.

Historians have been using his diary to gain greater insight and …

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Audio book and abridged. He certainly lived in momentus times. My only quibble with this text was the compilers went to the trouble to translate Pepys's short hand back to text but failed to translate the portions written in French or Spanish to English. I don't have command enough of those languages for those passages to be meaningful. Just put it all in English! On the other hand my suspicion is most of those passages were relating to his dalliances with women other than his wife so ... probably best to miss it anyway.