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In the pages reproduced here, the public events of the 1660s - the politics of the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Plague, the Great Fire of London - are interwoven with a diverting account of Pepys colourful private life.
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Pepys's Diary has long been recognized as the most remarkable diary in the English language, and is incomparable as a panorama of seventeenth-century London. However, it is only relatively recently that the entire text, including Pepys's frank descriptions of his sexual adventures, has been printed as he wrote it.With his unquenchable joy for life, boundless curiosity and sharp eye for detail, Pepys is the perfect diarist for the general reader. In his pages the great public events of the 1660s - the politics of the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Plague, the Great Fire of London - are interwoven with a richly diverting account of his private life, ranging from outings on the river and music concerts, to jealousy of his wife's dancing master and his own amorous assignations.
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