Samuel Pepys: A Life - Softcover

Coote, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 034075124X ISBN 13: 9780340751244

Publisher: Sceptre, 2001

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Pepys was a highly energetic man and closely involved in the strenuous and exciting times. This is an irresistible combination of public events and private passions, but above all this is a story of warmth and achievement, of affections and sadnesses, and of great things done by a man from no very special background who had to make his own way in the world. Here is a career of extraordinary richness and diversity, in PEPYS, Stephen Coote uses his skills as a historical biographer and accomplished story teller to reveal both the mind and the man, the life and the times with pace, detail, humour and wit.

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Review:

‘A good story racily told' -- DAILY EXPRESS

‘A splendid new biography about England's most famous diarist. ... A revealing and extraordinary portrait' -- LANCASHIRE EVENING POST

‘A subtle and intelligent portrait, not just of the man, but of the volatile political milieu in which he moved' -- SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

‘An engaging and uncommonly well-written book' -- SCOTSMAN

‘Coote captures both the prudential and the pleasure-loving aspects of his subject's complex character' -- MAIL ON SUNDAY

‘Stephen Coote has written a bright, breezy life that is balanced and readable and captures the man and his age' -- LITERARY REVIEW

About the Author:

Stephen Coote was educated at Magdalene College, Oxford and at Birkbeck College, University of London. His previous biographical subjects include: John Keats and W. B. Yeats.

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