Samuel Pepys by Claire Tomalin

Samuel Pepys by 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.

Claire Tomalin has worked in publishing and journalism all her life, becoming literary editor first of the New Statesman and then of the Sunday Times. She is the author of six highly acclaimed biographies and has won the Whitbread First Book Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography. Claire Tomalin lives in Camden Town, London with her husband Michael Frayn.

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ISBN 13	9780140282344
ISBN 10	0140282343
Title	Samuel Pepys
Author	Claire Tomalin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2003-07-03
Number of pages	544
Prizes	Winner of Samuel Pepys Award 2003, Winner of Whitbread Prize (Biography) 2002, Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Biography Category 2002, Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 2002, Short-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2003, Short-listed for BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2003
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