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Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In

by Henry B. Wheatley

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Henry Wheatley, the editor of Pepys’s diary, sets the diarist in his world: his family and career, his work for the Navy Office, his household, books and music, and the people of the Restoration court and city. He explains the London of the plague and the fire, theatre and taverns, money and manners.

A genial companion for anyone reading the famous diary. Download the free EPUB.

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