Pepys and His Contemporaries : A Pocketbook Guide to Diarist Samuel Pepys and His Era

Richard Ollard

Samuel Pepys's Diary stands with Shakespeare and the King James Bible as an indisputable treasure of English literature. As a picture of England, and especially of London, in the age of King Charles II, of Wren and Newton and Nell Gwyn, of the Plague and the Great Fire, it is a rare and honest report th...