Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
by Claire Tomalin
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- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375411437
- ISBN 13
- 9780375411434
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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
- More Than Words Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WAL-P-4d-1319
- Title
- Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- Author
- Claire Tomalin
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375411437
- ISBN 13
- 9780375411434
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2002
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