The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete

Kept in shorthand through the 1660s, Pepys’s diary is an incomparably vivid eyewitness record of Restoration London—the plague, the Great Fire, court intrigue, the theatre, and his own candid daily life. Gossipy, honest, and endlessly human, it brings a vanished world to immediate life. It is one of the most important and entertaining diaries ever written.