The Diary of Samuel Pepys

The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most entertaining documents in English history. Written between 1660 and 1669 as Pepys was establishing himself as a key administrator in the naval office it is an intimate portrait of life in 17th-century England covering his professional and personal activities including famously his love of music theatre food wine and his peccadilloes. This Naxos AudioBooks production is the world premiere recording of the diary in its entirety; the result of many years of scholarship by Robert Latham (Magdalene College Cambridge) and William Matthews (University of California). It has been divided into three volumes. Volume I covers the opening years of the Restoration and introduces us to many of the key characters - family government and royalty. Pepys was there when Charles II returned to England and he lived through those opening years of the Stuart monarchy with its revenge on the regicides. He also recorded the reopening of theaters and how he relaxed from the Puritan way of life.