by Samuel Pepys · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141397542
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«The Great Fire of London» is a selection from Samuel Pepys's diary, published by Penguin Books in paperback (64 pages, in English).
The book brings together entries from Samuel Pepys's personal diary, originally written in code, and focuses on his famous account of the fire that devastated London in 1666. Through scenes of panic, ruins and reconstruction, the author shows the everyday life of the city and offers an intimate, direct chronicle of the seventeenth century.
It is part of the Penguin Little Black Classics collection, number 47, published on February 26, 2015.
Ideal for readers of London and seventeenth-century history, and for those who enjoy diaries and first-hand accounts.
Samuel Pepys was an English writer and Tory politician. He served as an official in the Navy Board and Member of Parliament, but is now most renowned for the diary he kept for almost a decade, first published in the 19th century and one of the most important primary sources of the Stuart Restoration.
