Samuel Pepys - The Unequalled Self
Author(s): Claire Tomalin
Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the turbulent world around him, exactly what it was like to be a young man in Restoration London. This diary lies at the heart of Claire Tomalin's biography. Yet the use she makes of it - and of other hitherto unexamined material - is startlingly fresh and original. Within and beyond the narrative of Pepys's extraordinary career, she explores his inner life - his relations with women, his fears and ambitions, his political shifts, his agonies and his delights.
Product Information
Winner of Whitbread Prize (Biography) 2002 and Whitbread Book Awards: Biography Category 2002 and Samuel Pepys Award 2003 and Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 2002. Shortlisted for BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2003 and Samuel Johnson Prize 2003.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.423
- : 01 June 2003
- : 198mm X 129mm X 34mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Claire Tomalin
- : Paperback
- : New ed
- : English
- : very good
- : 568
- : 24pp b&w illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index