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Synopsis
From the author of "Clarendon and His Friends", this biography of Pepys describes the accomplishments of the man, the contradictions and contrasts in his character, and the eventful times in which he lived.
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About the Author
Richard Ollard is a noted historian who has published numerous biographies, mostly of seventeenth-century figures - Clarendon, Sandwich - and a history of the Civil War, This War without an Enemy. In 1998 he was the joint winner of the Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of books.
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'A remarkable biography beautifully structured, scholarly and written in elegant and vivid prose.A biography which, on first reading, one devours in a state of high excitement, unable to put it down, and then returns to again and again.' P D James
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- PublisherSinclair Stevenson
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 1856190668
- ISBN 13 9781856190664
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages411
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