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The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Modern Library
Originally scribbled in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys's quotidian journal of life in Restoration London provides an astonishingly frank and diverting account of political intrigues; naval, church, and cultural affairs; and the sexual escapades and domestic strife of a man with a voracious, childlike appeti ...Show more
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: a Selection by Samuel Pepys; Robert Latham (Selected by, Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Previously published as The Shorter Pepys, Samuel Pepys' The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection is a collection of scintillating first-hand accounts of Restoration England, from the most tumultuous events to the simplest domestic pleasures, selected and edited by Robert Latham. The 1660s represent a tur ...Show more
The Great Fire of London: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #47 by Samuel Pepys
$2.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics
'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops.' A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge r ...Show more
The Joys of Excess by Samuel Pepys
$12.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Wine
As well as being the most celebrated diarist of all time, Samuel Pepys was also a hearty drinker, eater and connoisseur of epicurean delights, who indulged in every pleasure seventeenth-century London had to offer. Whether he is feasting on barrels of oysters, braces of carps, larks' tongues and copious ...Show more
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