Samuel Pepys: The Years Of Peril
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At the heart of one of England's most turbulent political eras stands Samuel Pepys — naval administrator, diarist, and unlikely survivor — and Arthur Bryant's Samuel Pepys: The Years of Peril chronicles the dramatic middle chapter of his extraordinary life. Set against the backdrop of the Restoration court, the Popish Plot, and the fierce political storms of the 1670s, this second volume of Bryant's acclaimed trilogy follows Pepys as he is stripped of his offices, imprisoned in the Tower of London on trumped-up charges of treason, and forced to fight for his reputation, his freedom, and his very life. Bryant, celebrated for his richly textured narrative prose, presents history not as a dry recitation of dates and decrees but as a vivid human drama pulsing with intrigue, loyalty, and resilience. Drawing on Pepys's own meticulous correspondence and contemporary records, he reconstructs a world of courtly machination and public hysteria with forensic precision. The result is a portrait of a man defined not merely by his famous diary but by his remarkable capacity to endure — and the reader is left to wonder how one of England's greatest civil servants managed to emerge, triumphant, from the wreckage of an age that nearly consumed him.
Author: Arthur Bryant
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
At the heart of one of England's most turbulent political eras stands Samuel Pepys — naval administrator, diarist, and unlikely survivor — and Arthur Bryant's Samuel Pepys: The Years of Peril chronicles the dramatic middle chapter of his extraordinary life. Set against the backdrop of the Restoration court, the Popish Plot, and the fierce political storms of the 1670s, this second volume of Bryant's acclaimed trilogy follows Pepys as he is stripped of his offices, imprisoned in the Tower of London on trumped-up charges of treason, and forced to fight for his reputation, his freedom, and his very life. Bryant, celebrated for his richly textured narrative prose, presents history not as a dry recitation of dates and decrees but as a vivid human drama pulsing with intrigue, loyalty, and resilience. Drawing on Pepys's own meticulous correspondence and contemporary records, he reconstructs a world of courtly machination and public hysteria with forensic precision. The result is a portrait of a man defined not merely by his famous diary but by his remarkable capacity to endure — and the reader is left to wonder how one of England's greatest civil servants managed to emerge, triumphant, from the wreckage of an age that nearly consumed him.