Publisher's Synopsis
No Englishman has had a greater zest for life, a more delighted vitality, than Samuel Pepys. Avid for pleasure, he was no less passionate for efficiency. Enjoying beauty in all its forms, he was also a man of insatiable intellectual curiosity, President of the Royal Society, friend and patron of scholars. Never bored, he is never boring. Nothing was beneath his notice and nothing above it. His Diary brings the whole age of Charles II before us as no other text does.
