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“Pepys is a really great person to follow through an epidemic. He records day by day what it’s like to live in a plague-stricken city, and shows us the intertwining of things that are normal and things that are surreal.” Read more...
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Alex Chase-Levenson, Historian
“It is an invaluable picture of daily life in mid-17th century London and one that has never really been rivalled by any other diarist.” Read more...
Peter Ackroyd, Biographer
“Pepys gives you a total flavour of his time. It’s a wonderful picture of London – no one else has written remotely as well about London in those days.” Read more...
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