Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
by Tomalin, Claire
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- as new
- Paperback
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0140282343
- ISBN 13
- 9780140282344
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Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the turbulent world around him, exactly what it was like to be a young man in Restoration London. This diary lies at the heart of Claire Tomalin's biography. Yet the use she makes of it - and of other hitherto unexamined material - is startlingly fresh and original. Within and beyond the narrative of Pepys's extraordinary career, she explores his inner life - his relations with women, his fears and ambitions, his political shifts, his agonies and his delights.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0102954
- Title
- Samuel Pepys
- Author
- Tomalin, Claire
- Format/Binding
- Pbk.
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140282343
- ISBN 13
- 9780140282344
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 499 pp.
- Bookseller catalogs
- History-Political;
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