Peeping at Mr. Pepys

The diaries of the English Admiralty official and man-about-town Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) have been described as a “literary wonder” and a “unique monument of world history”. Pepys noted down literally everything that happened to him on a daily basis in the London of the 1660s. The result is a detailed, humorous chronicle of his everyday life – how Pepys squabbles with his wife, strolls through the London of the Great Plague in his new silk jacke...