Samuel Pepys kept his famous diary from 1660 to 1669, recording in remarkable candour his daily life as a naval administrator in Restoration London. The diary captures historic events — including the Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of London in 1666 — alongside vivid, unguarded accounts of theatre, music, food, love affairs, and the gossip of the age.
Unmatched as a primary source for seventeenth-century English social and political history, Pepys’s diary is also simply irresistible reading. Download the complete text as a free EPUB and experience one of the world’s greatest personal documents in full.