An abridgement of the famous diary by the remarkable Englishman who witnessed the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666, while chronicling life in Restoration London.

From the Publisher: For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would establish him as the greatest diarist in the English language. Against the backdrop of plague, civil war, and regicide,...