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Claire Tomalin
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Samuel Pepys : The Unequalled Self |
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English |
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Paperback |
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544 |
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2003-07-03 |
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0140282343 |
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Penguin Books Ltd |
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0.93 pounds |
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5.08 x 0.0 x 7.76 inches |
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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' 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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