Samuel Pepys
by Tomalin, Claire
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670885681
- ISBN 13
- 9780670885688
- Seller
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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
- Balfour Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034537
- Title
- Samuel Pepys
- Author
- Tomalin, Claire
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670885681
- ISBN 13
- 9780670885688
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Samuel Pepys Claire Tomalin Biography
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