by Claire Tomalin · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140282344
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«Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self» is the biography of Samuel Pepys by Claire Tomalin, published by Penguin UK in paperback (544 pages).
In this biography, Claire Tomalin reconstructs the life of Samuel Pepys, naval administrator in Restoration London, from the diary he kept for nearly ten years. Tomalin's account attends to Pepys's intimate world: relationships, ambitions, fears, and political changes.
Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year 2002, the work also received the Samuel Pepys and Rose Mary Crawshay awards in 2003.
Aimed at readers interested in English history, the seventeenth century, and historical biography, with text in English.
Claire Tomalin is an English journalist and biographer known for her biographies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft.
