false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173830558m/333295.jpg 333295 6 For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In <b>Samuel Pepys</b><i>,</i> Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would establish him as the greatest diarist in the English language.<br><br>Against the backdrop of plague, civil war, and regicide, with John Milton composing diplomatic correspondence for Oliver Cromwell, Christopher Wren drawing up plans to rebuild London, and Isaac Newton advancing the empirical study of the world around us, Tomalin weaves a breathtaking account of a figure who has passed on to us much of what we know about seventeenth-century London. We witness Pepys&#8217;s early life and education, see him advising King Charles II before running to watch the great fire consume London, learn about the great events of the day as well as the most intimate personal details that Pepys encrypted in the Diary, follow him through his later years as a powerful naval administrator, and come to appreciate how Pepys&#8217;s singular literary enterprise would in many ways prefigure our modern selves. With exquisite insight and compassion, <b>Samuel Pepys</b> captures the uniquely fascinating figure whose legacy lives on more than three hundred years after his death. 1708807 2002 Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self total:107|5:46|4:40|3:17|2:2|1:2| 107 447 211 23 4 1 false false Tue Jan 08 21:02:03 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 22:41:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 07 02:15:04 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 02:15:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri May 11 14:02:14 -0700 2007 Fri May 11 14:05:50 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 15:33:32 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 15:44:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 true false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Dec 07 09:16:39 -0800 2007 Wed Sep 24 12:48:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon May 21 23:12:19 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 22:07:43 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 09:24:54 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 09:39:11 -0700 2008
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