# Samuel Pepys

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- Book: [Samuel Pepys](https://www.bookquiver.com/claire-tomalin/samuel-pepys) ([Samuel Pepys.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/claire-tomalin/samuel-pepys.md))
- Authors: [Claire Tomalin](https://www.bookquiver.com/claire-tomalin)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-326-5
- Pages: 576
- Published: 2012-06-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Claire Tomalin's thrilling life of Pepys carried all before it when it was first published in 2002: it won the Whitbread Biography Award, and was then named Whitbread Book of the Year. Tomalin paints an unforgettable portrait of the man himself - diarist, civil servant, restless husband - who was present as a child at the execution of Charles l and later in life found himself briefly imprisoned in the Tower before dying peacefully in Clapham at the beginning of the new century. And in the background are a cast of hundred populating Tomalin's teeming canvas: from Nell Gwynn to Titus Oates, from pimps to puritans, from baronets to bawdy-house keepers.