Pepys: A Biography (Oxford Paperbacks)
Description
Pepys lived to the age of 70 and became one of the most versatile and accomplished men of a versatile and accomplished age, the friend of Wren and John Evelyn, of Dryden and Newton, President of the Royal Society and one of the most creative and efficient public servants in English history. The man of pleasure was a stern moralist, the man of business an aesthete who found in the arts, especially music, his profoundest experience. The contradictions, the contrasts of this most extraordinary of ordinary men contribute to our perception of our own humanity. The times through which he lived we...
ISBN(s)
0192814664, 9780192814661
