Diary of Samuel Pepys Vol 1 Everyman's Library 1943

Volume 1 of the Everyman's Library edition of The Diary of Samuel Pepys (edited by Kate Loveman) offers an intimate, uncensored, and selected account of 1660s London, beginning with Pepys as a young clerk. The diary chronicles the Restoration of Charles II, his rise in the Navy Office, the Great Plague, and the Great Fire of 1666. It captures, with extreme frankness, the political, social, and personal life of a pivotal figure in English history.