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9780375411434
"Claire Tomalin's life...is a magnificent triumph. Her research has been not just scrupulously thorough but dazzlingly imaginative. The single most impressive thing about this fresh, serious book is that after finishing it, one suddenly reflects that at no moment did one ask the question that ought, surely to hang over any biography of Pepys: 'What is this really adding to what the DIARY tells us?...Here...we get the exhilarating sense that we were mistaken after all. Pepys did not, in fact, tell us everything....Tomalin, Claire is the author of 'Samuel Pepys The Unequalled Self', published 2002 under ISBN 9780375411434 and ISBN 0375411437.
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