Download or read book Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In written by Henry B. Wheatley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents some of the most exciting incidents from the diary of Samuel Pepys concerning his life and the manners of his time. Pepys was an English diarist and naval administrator. He acted as administrator of the navy of England and a Member of Parliament. Pepys is most famous for keeping a diary for a decade when he was young. Since one cannot separate the life of Pepys from the period he lived in, this work acts as a history of 16th century England.