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Total pages original book: 368
Includes a PDF summary of 34 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 24M14S (6.8 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: Richard Le Gallienne's elegant abridgment of the Diary captures the essential writings of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), a remarkable man who witnessed the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666. 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 appetite for living. 'As a human document the Diary is literally unique,' notes Le Gallienne. 'It will have a still greater value for its historical importance.'
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