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 The Diary of Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys • Richard Le Gallienne (Editor) • Robert Louis Stevenson (Introduction) BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2001 • PAPER • 352 PAGES
The perennially popular diary of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), both an account of his life and portrait of the tumultuous 1660s in London. Pepys covers, among may other things in his nine-year-long diary, the coronation of Charles II, bubonic plague and the Great Fire. This volume is edited and much abridged by essayist and poet Richard Le Gallienne. The original is eight times as long.
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