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Pepys and his Contemporaries, Paperback / softback Book

Pepys and his Contemporaries Paperback / softback

Part of the National Portrait Gallery Companions series

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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 that charts the key events of the day.

In this book, Richard Ollard introduces the man himself, his friends and acquaintances - including Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, Charles II and John Evelyn - who Pepys wrote about with such humour and abandon.

Illustrated with painted portraits, busts, engravings, and an extract from the Diary in Pepys's original shorthand, this is a highly visual book that charts those men and women who surrounded Pepys.

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